I’m so sick of marginal women having children and then killing them! That is why I have sad over and over again that we need some sort of test to screen these people BEFORE they are allowed to have kids. I know it sounds harsh, but it really would be best. You can’t become an accountant without a passing a test. You can’t even become a hairdresser legally without passing a test. You can’t drive without passing a test. Raising children is more important than those things right? Where is the test? We should at least have a psychological test. Anyway, Shaquan Duley proves my point.

Shaquan Duley is a 29 year old woman. She had three children - a 5 year old little girl, an 18 month old little boy and a 2 year old little boy. Shaquan was living with her kids at the home of her grandmother. Shaquan, allegedly overwhelmed by her unemployment and lack of desire to continue raising the kids, suffocated the two boys, strapped them into her car and drove her car into a river. The little girl was not murdered. After driving the kids into the river, Shaquan walked some distance away from the river and then flagged down a passing motorist for “help”. Of course, by the time helped arrived, the kids were already dead. Shaquan Duley then lied to police before finally confessing that she killed the kids. How sick is that?

I can understand not wanting kids. Kids can make you feel that way sometimes when they are not behaving. However, I can’t understand killing them. I can even understand someone wanting to kill their kids, but I just can’t understand anyone actually doing it - especially a mother. This woman had three kids in the span of five years. If you don’t want kids - why have them? There is a choice there you know? She could have had an abortion once she got pregnant after the first one. I’m not sure if government health care pays for abortions. If it doesn’t, it sure should since I’m sure that is what she had. If you don’t want the responsibility, put the kids in foster care, give them to an adoption agency, take them to a church or ask a family member to take them. Whatever you do, don’t kill them. They didn’t ask to be here! We can’t even blame this one on being young. This woman wasn’t a teenage parent when she had her first child! She was 24 years old!

I think that it should be absolutely MANDATORY that people pass a psychological test AND that people pass a basic skills test. They should also be made aware of the resources of available to people who need help. This woman has committed one of the most horrible offenses we can imagine a parent committing - but she isn’t the first and won’t be the last. This issue crosses racial lines, it crosses economic lines and it knows no boundaries - but it should. An American woman in Scotland, Theresa Riggi, murdered her three children and tried to kill herself because she was going through a divorce and custody battle last week. Parental murders are horrible, but not figuring out if you should or should not be a parent BEFORE you become one is just very, very stupid!

May the children of Shaquan Duley and Theresa Riggi rest in peace and may the parents who commit crimes against their children die a slow and painful death. There are many alternatives to getting help with your children and none of those alternatives include murder.