I haven't seen anything about whether she was taking
anything or not.
I just figure she probably was.
Linda
--- In SSRI-Crusaders@yahoogroups.com, "Jim"
<mofunnow s...> wrote:
>
> http:
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>
> Police Weigh Charges Against Ark. Mother
>
> Monday, January 30, 2006
>
>
>
> DE QUEEN, Ark. - A mother who left New York for a
small
southwestern
> Arkansas town to give her three children a safer place
to grow up
was behind
> bars Monday, accused of killing them.
>
> Police found the bodies of 8-year-old Elvis and
6-year-old twins
Samanta and
> Samuel on a bed in their home over the weekend after a
call from the
> children's worried father in New York. Autopsies were
planned to
determine
> whether the children had been poisoned or smothered, as
their
mother told
> police, authorities said.
>
> Paula Eleazar Mendez was scheduled to be arraigned
Monday at the
Sevier
> County Courthouse in De Queen. She had collapsed when
police
arrived at her
> house, and she initially was hospitalized for drinking
a toxic
substance.
>
> Prosecutor Tom Cooper said there was no dispute about
who killed the
> children, but his office had not yet determined
"the particular
homicide
> charge or punishment we will be seeking."
>
> Authorities say Mendez, 43, left notes written in
Spanish that
could help
> investigators determine a motive, but declined to
reveal their
content.
>
> A neighbor said Mendez was distraught because her
husband, who
supported the
> family from New York, wanted a divorce, the Arkansas
Democrat-
Gazette
> reported for Monday editions.
>
> "She was depressed," Javier Garcia said
through an interpreter,
explaining
> that she wept often for several weeks after learning
the news.
>
> Outside the one-story, frame house was a pile of burned
papers. A
page in a
> religion book bore the words "vamos a
celebrar" - Spanish for "let's
> celebrate." A child's handwriting was scrawled in
blue ink across
some
> papers, and there were charred letters from a labor
union in New
York City.
>
> Other friends said Mendez was a caring mother, and her
husband,
Arturo
> Morales, 37, planned to join her in Arkansas when he
had paid off
the
> mortgage of their house.
>
> "Many times she showed me photos of her
children," said M. Rocio
Maya, who
> attended St. Barbara Catholic Church with Mendez.
"She showed me
when she
> was pregnant with each one of them, photos of her
husband, of the
happy life
> that they had always lived."
>
> The Rev. Salvador Marquez-Munoz said Sunday before
entering the
parish hall
> to celebrate Mass that he had visited with Mendez at
the hospital.
>
> "She has tremendous remorse. She is deeply
sorry," he said. "She
asked for
> our prayers and forgiveness because she is realizing
how much she
has hurt
> the community, as well."
>
> He said Mendez had lived in the United States for 10
years since
moving from
> Mexico, and left New York for Arkansas so her children
could grow
up in a
> safer environment. The family never missed Sunday Mass
and attended
> religious education classes, he said.
>
> Marquez-Munoz said he didn't know what compelled Mendez
to hurt her
> children. "The only thing that I can imagine is
some personal
issues," he
> said.
>
> The priest was waiting for Morales to arrive from New
York before
making
> arrangements for a funeral service.
>
> Counselors would be available Monday at De Queen
Primary School,
where Elvis
> was in the second grade and the twins attended
kindergarten, said
> superintendent Bill Blackwood.
>
>
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