A Long Island mom who admitted to drowning her three children has given birth to a fourth while incarcerated.
NBC New York reports that Leatrice Brewer, 33, was impregnated
at the Mid-Hudson Forensic Psychiatric Center in New Hampton where
she's been locked up since admitting to drowning her three kids in a
bathtub in 2008.
The center refused to comment, citing privacy laws, and it remains
unclear who the father of Brewer's child is or how she was able to get
pregnant at the secure facility, according to NBC New York.
Attorney Tom Foley, who represents the father of two of Brewer's deceased children, called her pregnancy "outrageous".
"This person's supposedly in a secure facility and she gets
pregnant," Foley said. "This is the woman who had no idea what she was
doing when she murdered her children."
The Associated Press reported last week
that Brewer, who was found not guilty by reason of mental disease or
defect, is also seeking a cut of $350,000 won by the fathers of her
children in wrongful death lawsuits.
Psychiatrists who evaluated Brewer said she had a major depressive
disorder and likely killed her children because she wanted to save them
from the deadly effects of voodoo, according to the AP.
Shortly after she killed her children, Brewer attempted suicide,
first by swallowing a combination of cleaning products and then by
jumping out of a two-story window.
Source: Huffingtonpost.com
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