Drug-crazed woman in Rizal kills her 2 kids


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Unstable people should not be allowed to be around children.

“In San Mateo, Rizal, police are readying parricide charges against Barangay Silangan resident Melisa Sumanting, 33, who allegedly killed her two children while she was drunk and most likely under the influence of drugs,” reports Nel B. Andrade in Tempo.

[Note: The video embedded along with this story still conceals the name of the suspect, victims, and other people involved. However, several reports have already used the real names.]

The children were identified as Alina, 2, and 4-month-old Romilie. Sumanting strangled or suffocated them to death at around 3pm on Wed, May 20. Police are still determining the exact cause of death of the kids.

In some reports, it was revealed that Sumanting admitted to covering the kids’ mouth and then holding their noses until they stopped breathing.

According to Police Superintendent Ruben Piquero — the police chief of San Mateo, Rizal — Sumanting tried to kill herself after both of her children were dead. She used a kitchen knife to slash her wrists but her younger sister arrived to see her alive and sitting near the children’s bodies.

Sumanting was rushed to Amang Rodriguez Hospital shortly after the incident.

The report noted: “Probers found two drug paraphernalia in the suspect’s house, indicating that she could have been under the influence of drugs when she committed the crime.”

Sumanting’s husband, who was at work when his kids got killed, was shocked by what happened. He kept saying in Filipino, “She isn’t capable of doing that. She loved our kids.”



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