Prediction Post

Article used: Mom Drowns Three Kids in LI

Summary: This article was about a mother that lived in LI that decided to kill all three of her children. According to the NEW YORK POST she drowned all three of her children and then laid them on her bed before calling 911. People that were interviewed in the article thought that the 27 year old mother drowned her kids because she had been stressed out about money. She worked in a department store in Long Island and had recently applied for social services but they denied her application! The Father of the children stated that the mother had used crack and cocaine before and was mentally ill! He also stated that he had been to court trying to get custody of his children so he could have taken care of his children.

Opinion: This was so sad to me! I can't understand what would actually make you kill your own children. I know that there are people in this world that really want to have children and they can't. Then you find a lady like this that was blessed with three beautiful children and she just takes their lives! The fact that she was 27 years old and had three kids working in Kohl's Department store made me wonder about her level of education.

Prompt: The Questions I had before reading this article:
1. I predicted from the title that the mother had drowned all three of her kids in the bath tub.

2. I also predicted that maybe she killed her kids because she didn't have enough money to take care of them.

My Predictions were correct! The article stated that the mother drowned her kids in the bath tub one by one and then laid them on her bed before calling for help. The article also talked about how witnesses said that she had looked stressed lately and had told people that she needed money.