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  • Paw Eh: Dallas Mom of Three Forces Child to Eat Ant Poison

    Paw Eh, a 31-year-old mom of three from Dallas, has been arrested and charged with attempted capital murder. Eh allegedly forced her four-year-old son to eat ant poison.

    People magazine reports that Paw Eh was taken into custody on Saturday after a witness called police.

    Eh unsuccessfully attempted to poison her seven-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter. The Dallas Morning News shared this information with People after obtaining an affidavit of the charges against Paw Eh.

    The affidavit states that Paw Eh mixed ant poison with water and forced it into her four-year-old’s mouth with a spoon, making him swallow the mixture. The two older children escaped when they saw what she did to their brother. They ran to their grandmother’s nearby apartment and the grandmother dialed 911.

    The four-year-old is hospitalized in serious condition, and is expected to survive.

    Paw Eh is being held on $500,00 in the Dallas County Jail. She has not yet entered a plea.

    The two older children have been placed in foster care.

    What makes a mother snap and want to kill her children? Is it mental illness or simply a complete detachment of emotions?

    Paw Eh could have given her children up. Any mother has that right. Harming a child–or worse, attempting to murder a child–is reprehensible.

    It will be interesting to learn more information about Paw Eh as it is uncovered.

    Surely hearts are going out to these poor children, who not only are now in foster care, but must live with the notion that their mother wanted them dead.

  • Jodi Arias Representing Herself in Court

    Convicted killer Jodi Arias will be allowed to represent herself in the sentencing phase of her capital murder trial.

    On June 4, 2008, Arias attacked her boyfriend Travis Alexander, and ended up stabbing him repeatedly, slitting his throat and shooting him in the forehead at his Mesa, Arizona home.

    Admitted killer Arias, 34, claimed she was acting in self-defense, but prosecutors were successful in convincing a jury that it was premeditated murder, brought on by a jealous rage after Alexander tried to end the affair.

    The case was adapted for a 2013 Lifetime made-for-TV Original entitled Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret, starring actress Tania Raymonde. Here is a teaser trailer:

    The murder received extensive media coverage, and there are hours of court proceedings, commentaries, interviews and other various detritus available surrounding the lurid case. Arias has clashed with her legal team throughout her trial, and her lawyers were denied after asking Judge Sherry Stephens to be dismissed from the case.

    Arias, who received her GED in prison, will have her lawyers on hand in an advisory capacity, to help her traverse whatever ideas and concepts she might conjure in time for what will surely be a virtuoso performance as she takes the stand.

    Apparently, Jodi has access to social media in prison, and had some words of wisdom:

    Other Twitter commentary regarding the latest courtroom development:

    Arias also set up the JAA Appellate Fund website, which accepts donations to pay for her appeals.

    The sentencing trial is scheduled to begin Sept. 8. If the second jury is unable to make a unanimous decision, the death penalty would be off the table. The judge would then sentence Arias to life imprisonment, or to be eligible for release after 25 years.

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