3 children fatally beaten at home; mother tries to hang herself

How could you ever hurt your children, espacially at that age ?

Mental health or not, she deserves the gallows.

So heartbreaking, there is no "good" explanation possible.

Why does it always happen when the husband is at work by the way?

Is it me or we hardly ever hear about husband killing their children ?

 They were all bleeding from head wounds. They were taken to hospital, but confirmed dead on arrival.

Amityville Horror in effect. What's next Helter Skelter?

Unbelievable tragedy. Rest in Peace to those poor kids - killed by the person they trusted more than anyone on earth.

Mental illness or not, there is never, ever any justification to harm your children.

Horrible news.

Mental illness or not, there is never, ever any justification to harm your children.

Unfortunately, for her there was. She wanted to kill herself, but then thought, "Who will take care of my children? No one will ever love them and take care of them like I do." The only logical action, for her, was to kill them as well so they wouldn't suffer without her. I'm not trying to justify it, just explain it. It's twisted and tragic, but unfortnately all too common.

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Horrible news.

Mental illness or not, there is never, ever any justification to harm your children.

Unfortunately, for her there was. She wanted to kill herself, but then thought, "Who will take care of my children? No one will ever love them and take care of them like I do." The only logical action, for her, was to kill them as well so they wouldn't suffer without her. I'm not trying to justify it, just explain it. It's twisted and tragic, but unfortnately all too common.

OR, she did have intentions to kill them & then thought about the trouble she ws in & rather than face it thought take the cowards way out. Just another option here.

I wonder if this isn't yet another botched psych case. Was she in the middle of "mental treatment"?

Why is he coming home at 11pm on a Sunday? If you have kids, it’s very easy to understand that people can be pushed over the limit easily, if no-one helps.

This country really needs to confront mental health sooner or later. Everyday I read the news lately it's just one tragic story after another, "man runs over wife and kills her", "man stabs teenagers at Mcdonalds" and now this, it's really out of hand.

Why is he coming home at 11pm on a Sunday?

It’s winter holidays. Maybe he was watching up with friends. Or maybe he works on weekends and/or evenings. For a father to come home late is not unusual on any day of the week.

Absolutely terrible. Am I supposed to believe this happened out of nowhere and the father was totally clueless?

Mental health or not, she deserves the gallows.

She already tried to hang herself, bro. Sounds to me you advocate the death penalty for your own cope and vengeance giving more reason to understand the death penalty has no impact/benefit to society

Third time these sorts of things happen right in the vicinity of where I’ve lived.

she deserves the gallows

No, that’s exactly what she wants. She should sit in solitary confinement, forced to live and reflect on her gruesome crimes for the rest of her life.

May the poor children rest in peace and the remaining family members receive the support they need after this monstrous tragedy.

"" Unfortunately, for her there was. She wanted to kill herself, but then thought, "Who will take care of my children? No one will ever love them and take care of them like I do." The only logical action, for her, was to kill them as well so they wouldn't suffer without her. I'm not trying to justify it, just explain it. It's twisted and tragic, but unfortnately all too common. ""

""No one will ever love them and take care of them like I do." The only logical action, for her, was to kill them ""

What kind of a person could "Love" his or her kids to a point were he or she could corner them in a room look them in eye and BEAT them to death while they are watching each others and screaming for help!!??

This is not "LOVE" this is HATE and RAGE, an evil act, she could have just hanged herself and at least gave them the choice of how they wish to live their lives, but ot of SELFISHNESS she did what she did. A demon to say the least.

Rest In Peace Riko, Mako, and Rei. You didn't deserve that.

After coming home to find your 3 children dead in there rooms, and find your wife hanging, what goes through any sane persons mind? The poor husband must be in shock, I am shure some people would say, s*d it let her stay there, some people would want to ask her what went off.

The relatives downstairs didn't hear anything? I can't imagine teenagers weren't fighting back. I suppose they could have been asleep, but still you can't beat three people to death in silence.

It is very unlikely that her first sign of severe mental instability was bludgeoning her kids to death. More likely that heads were buried in the sand hoping that everything would go away and the neighbors wouldn't gossip.

This country really needs to confront mental health sooner or later. Everyday I read the news lately it's just one tragic story after another, "man runs over wife and kills her", "man stabs teenagers at Mcdonalds" and now this, it's really out of hand.

> > *really out of hand It's BEEN, ........probably * aint gonna do squat

The relatives downstairs didn't hear anything?

Japanese reporting doesn't mention "detached house".

https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASSDY73BDSDYULOB001M.html

This country really needs to confront mental health sooner or later.

Thanks for telling us what this country really needs.

Why does it always happen when the husband is at work by the way?

Is it me or we hardly ever hear about husband killing their children ?

Yeah, think it's you, mate.

. More likely that heads were buried in the sand hoping that everything would go away and the neighbors wouldn't gossip.

Maybe.

What do the neighbors say?

https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASSDY73BDSDYULOB001M.html

And the extended family living on the first floor wasn’t home downstairs, didn’t hear anything? This isn’t just a Japan thing. The thing that dad did to his child in California a week or so ago actually made me throw up in my mouth a little bit… people are just terrible in general. Country, nationality doesn’t matter.

Jonathan PrinDec. 30  04:52 pm JST

Mental health or not, she deserves the gallows.

That’s right! You show how tough you are. That’ll stop all future incidents. It so simple. I think it might be more useful to understand why this happened and more importantly the failings of the gov agencies. Since we don’t know enough about the situation I’ll spare the lynch mob mentality.

It’s heart breaking to read about these murder suicide type incidents. What must be going through the peoples minds to kill their own children? A fit of rage? Untreated mental illness? I can’t imagine what the husband must be going through right now.

Police said they are also questioning the husband about his wife’s mental condition and what might have made her want to kill the children

Her mental condition is obviously not good. It’s so sad. Those kids were entering the best time of their life.

Woodylee

""No one will ever love them and take care of them like I do." The only logical action, for her, was to kill them ""

What kind of a person could "Love" his or her kids to a point

This line of thinking, as crazy as it sounds, is typically behind these "family suicides" here, as they used to be called. Are you new to Japan?

were he or she could corner them in a room look them in eye and BEAT them to death while they are watching each others and screaming for help!!??

You are imagining a scenario, without any knowledge how it actually played out. She might have ambushed the one by one; the article gives no information, and at this point probably even the police does not know.