An evil mother

Few things disturb me more than a parent killing their children just to spite the other parent and stop them gaining access to them. It is such an evil malicious act.

The majority of parents who do this are men. But not universally. The Guardian reports:

An American woman accused of killing two of her children after a Colorado judge demanded she comply with a custody order has been extradited from Britain, where she was arrested, to the United States to face charges.

Kimberlee Singler was arrested in Kensington, west London, by officers from the UK’s National Crime Agency in December 2023, a week after her nine-year-old daughter and seven-year-old son were found dead in their home in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Singler’s 11-year-old daughter was injured but survived. Singler had superficial knife wounds and told police that a man had entered the apartment and attacked the family. The surviving daughter initially backed Singler’s story but eventually told an investigator that her mother said that God made her do it, according to court documents in the United Kingdom.

God had nothing to do with it. She murdered two of her own children rather than allow their father to be able to see them. She tried to frame him for the murders.

Singler, 37, fought extradition and denied attacking her children. Her London defense attorney, Edward Fitzgerald, argued that Singler should not be extradited because if convicted of first-degree murder in Colorado, she would face a mandatory sentence of life without parole – a sentence that violates European human rights law.

Life without parole is the minimum she should get.