A woman on the island of Guadeloupe believed to have decapitated her two small children had to be Tasered by police and was admitted into a psychiatric hospital after she was found wandering the streets naked and singing.
The bodies of the mutilated four-year-old and 13-month-old siblings were found in a bathtub in their home in Sainte-Rose by their father at around 3.25am on Tuesday.
The children’s father, who had just returned home from work, alerted emergency services, which was when police found the woman ‘in a state of delirium’, according to commander of the Guadeloupe gendarmarie General Christophe Perret.
French outlet Le Parisien reported that the woman was speaking incoherently and was unable to explain the reasons for her actions when approached by cops.
Public prosecutor Caroline Talbo said that the mother was initially taken into custody and then released due to her mental state, and has since been hospitalised.
The police have opened a murder investigation, but further details have not been disclosed.
A woman in the island of Guadeloupe believed to have decapitated her two small children had to be Tasered by police and was admitted into a psychiatric hospital after she was found wandering the streets naked and singing
According to outlet Ouest France, autopsies of the two bodies will be conducted today and tomorrow.
In addition, a bladed weapon was discovered at the scene of the murders, which will now be analysed, Calbo confirmed.
Meanwhile the father had to be treated by emergency services as he was in a state of shock.
The horrific killing of two innocent children comes just days after a woman killed herself and her two children last week after jumping off Niagara Falls.
Chianti Means, 33, stepped over the guardrail at Luna Island on Monday night, with her two kids Roman, 9, and Mecca, four months.
Police said last Wednesday that after sweeping the area thoroughly for days that search and rescue efforts were unsuccessful.
Since her passing, previous Facebook posts she had made have resurfaced online in which she expressed a desire to get back with the father of her daughter.
Just days before jumping to her and her kids’ deaths, Means marvelled about her daughter, writing online that she was beautiful.
On October 14, Means expressed regret that she and her daughter’s father were no longer together.
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