I CUT My Children's Throat With A Knife To Keep Them Quiet- Mother Of Three speaks
A Washington state woman accused of stabbing her three small children told detectives she cut the children's throats with a kitchen knife to keep them quiet for her soldier husband.Christina E. Booth, 29, of Olympia, said that her husband, Thomas Booth, never helped her with the children and got "very annoyed" when they cried. The children include a 2-year-old toddler and 6-month-old twins. Bail was set Monday at $3 million. The woman was arrested early Sunday for investigation of attempted murder. The children were reported stable on Sunday after surgery at a hospital and they have been placed in the custody of state Child Protective Services. Thomas Booth told police his wife had been "very stressed out" raising the children and was on medication for post-partum depression. He said he and his wife had watched a movie at home Saturday night and each had two large glasses of wine. He described his wife as sufficiently intoxicated that she was slurring