Authorities say a Michigan woman and two of her children, ages 3 and 9, were found dead in a field in Pontiac after wandering the streets for days. WDIV’s Rod Meloni reports.
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This is why crazy people shouldn’t have kids. I didn’t.
Probably a tweaker. So sad
😓😓😓🙏🙏🙏
This is gonna be used as an excuse to proactively regulate the mental health of citizens. And I agree.
So many strange things are happening throughout this world and it’s sad to see a mother and children trying to stay alive only because the mother feels that someone is out to harm them and I hope the family and friends help the daughter get through this tragedy .🙏🙏🙏
Drugs
Mental illness and no Health insurance ..
She probably was… . Im being watched for over a year and half now! 24/7 ! I did not commit any crimes. Deal drugs ,Firearms, or anything! In fact if a cashier miss something I let them know and pay for whatever. Or even if the change isn’t right. Live a honest life , yet they broke into my garage and house many time. I believe to plant surveillance equipment! They broke my toilet falling through a window into it. Look up cell phone Stingray.
They could have tried harder to find them. Including using dogs and helicopters.
Sound like her inner circle social media was attacking her lively hood making it hard to live with out money but know it getting harder to trust anyone in this age
Neighbor offer money??? You dont turn a cold hungry family away. Especially young kids. No compassion.
A bitter indictment of our country’s mental health system.
I wish I had kids
Wouldn’t doubt it with police now a days
Such a shame. Mental health
Schizophrenia is the real deal. This woman believed in her heart that she was protecting those kids. People with this disease aren’t faking it, and there’s no psychotherapy to make it go away.
Im heartbroken by this……….we have lost our way in the USA. Magistrates should allow 50/50 custody. Women arent the same anymore these days.
😢😢😢💔💔💔 this brakes my heart
How does he know what she told her children?!?! Where are social services in all this? Could have been prevented by authorities such a sad loss of life. Nobody cares except after the event.
*Did you not get the memo? Woke mob says you can’t say “field” anymore.*
Are certain folks being hunted or or is mental illness rampant?
And once again, untreated mental illness. And still nothing will be done.
Blame the Communist Democrat Nazis Party Leaders.
😭
That’s incredible, why didn’t her family intervene ? Sad times we are living in. I could never leave a sibling struggling mentally on their own.
LOOK AT ALL THE BS THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS CRAP.
I bet you its drug related problems from the mom.
Every child deserves a parent, but not every parent deserves a child.
She may have been right. Especially about the deputies
Lol how does that happen
thems must hav bean disornimented ang twas goin arron in circulls
you know what i sayin
so tragic
Very sad,
What an absolute horror. In case anyone needed a reminder of the need for a functioning mental healthcare system in this country, here you go. I feel so horribly sorry for the surviving child. What an awful start to life.
Suspicious
CRYSTAL LAKE????? ]!!!
how does that guy know what she told her children prior to freezing to death?
Where was the father?
My question exactly as well !!
That’s heartbreaking
So tragic.
That man could of helped. If he saw that baby and didn’t help I hope they charge him.
That’s called thinning the herd⏳
😥
Mental sickness is a killer, report early and save lives
Only a mile away 😧 gadamn
This is what comes from having ended mental health longterm inpatient care many decades ago in most of the United States. Activists who worked to get the mentally ill out of institutional care back into “mainstream” living created a whole lot of homelessness for those who are not able to safely care for themselves or others. There is no oversight or in person monitoring by any governmental agency or welfare provider or mental health provider for these poor helpless souls. It is our failure as a community and as a nation to care for those who cannot care for themselves. Shame on us.
Crazy wacko mom.
Where is the dad in all this ??
Its actually extremely hard to sleep when your that cold. Most likely the kids sat shivering begging to leave until they slowly lost consciousness.
Rest in peace family
Its a 3 minute walk from my house too where they were found, Its crazy and sad too think a mother and her 3 kids were freezing too death outside while I had a whole house with heat they could of sheltered in until they got help.. Rest in Peace too the family and im praying for the daughter🙏
Someone was on a bender
CRYSTAL LAKE????????!!!!!!!
Drugs are bad
I feel sorry for her family members. What many folks won’t understand is that when you have a family member that suffers from paranoid schizophrenia they don’t trust you enough to let you help. Anything you do reinforces their belief that you’re out to get them. They become a danger to you. Whatever you think of trying… calling cops, consulting with therapists…it never works because they’re just as determined to prove they don’t need help as you are to want to get them help.
Maybe she was being watched or stalked, even if she had a mental illness that doesn’t mean she was lying. But it does mean that nobody would believe her. Odd that she never did this before, then all of a sudden. I hope they continue to investigate, don’t just write her off as crazy.
And then when absolutely nothing is found to correspond to the belief she was being stalked, time to believe without evidence, right? After all, that’s what virtually every conspiracy theory is: They exist because, regardless of the lack of evidence and/or thorough debunking, people double down on their stupidity, thinking believing hard enough will cause Reality to magically alter to suit their beliefs.
We need to increase awareness around mental health and stop stigmatizing the idea of being “crazy”.
This is how we know God loves us.
Very foolish.
Somebody should have stepped in and protected those kids from her.
This is the most bizarre story. they all died from natural causes at the same time? No way…
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So sad
What does the toxicology say about the mom?
Because mental disorders are excusive to drug users, right?
So very very sad poor lady she thought she was doing her best for her family .she needed support and care .May they rest in peace. X
The title is misleading… not the story I was expecting. Heartbroken now thanks
Everyone blames mental disease. I think these cops are getting so out of line lately, they literally scaring people to death. Rather die in a field than get harassed by police for watering your neighbors flowers. Real talk.
How does that cop know “she told the children to lay down & sleep”?
I would of gave her food water this is so sad
so sad
Drugs are bad, m’kay?
Oh what a lovely story
Meth amphetamines.
So sad clearly she needed some type of help
Mental health is an issue we don’t take seriously enough. Hearth goes out to the family, the late mom and kids and the surviving daughter. This is heartbreaking.
The search couldn’t have been that urgent, helicopters with thermal cameras or at least dogs could have been used. No expense is spared for criminals but not even thermal goggles could be used for children in harms way after several calls about them? 🤷♀
Why weren’t helicopters sent out to find them? Can’t believe those kids were just left to die like that 😢
God had better things to do than help this family it seems, and the guardian angels were on strike. Fiction is nice.
Soo….. why did she think this?
🤣🤣🤣good ridance, can you imagine if they were still alive. Nothing worse in this world than mentally deranged people raising kids.
Wackjobs as parents nowadays so sad 😞
My Prayers and Condolences are with you……
Men watch out on who you have kids with…
Cops have K-9s, Why didn’t the dogs find them? The real problem goes back to when Nancy Reagan got the law changed so that no one can be locked up against their will. We need to fix that, so they can be locked up in a care facility that actually cares. All of us need to actively support the care of others. It is called civilization.
Darwin winners
This is outrageous! Knowingly ignoring a mentally ill mom with two poor kids, so young in life!
All it takes is a phone call! 👽 🔫
‘Money’ isn’t always the solution, and this world didn’t start from bitcoin all those k yrs ago!
And that is why we need better mental health education and care.
This was so very sad… mental illness (possibly and/or drugs) killed three despite the efforts of family and others. 💙
The crazy things happening in government would make anybody paranoid. Just look at the Biden Crime Family and the corruption of the FBI, CIA, and other departments
Well that sucks… ☹️
natural selection. dummy had it coming. too many morons are having kids, no wonder the human race is deteriorating so quickly
Wow I can say from my experiences with my ex she may have paranoid schizophrenia. That breaks my heart. We need to be more accepting and loving in this world
Where was the children’s father?
And this is what happens when our country does not fund mental health programs, children get hurt and/or die. Social programs are not just for “lazy” people, they save lives too.
With the new Anti Abortion laws. More and more Mentally ill and Unstable will be forced to parent. People who know they shouldn’t have kids will be forced to parent and more and more Foster parents will be needed, and so the qualifications will become lax and more and more Mentally ill and Unstable will be Fostering and Adopting… America’s new SH!TSHOW.. LOL.
My heart just break for them. Seems like they could and should have been saved at any moment!!! Just senseless
Human traffickers/ satanic cult members
Why couldn’t the cops send a drone to look for her?
Children TRUST their parents 🥺, the poor little guys don’t know any better 😭.
That’s what happens when you mix mental illness with half the people on the country demonizing law enforcement.
Dear God, this is so sad.
MENTAL ILLNESS AND NO HUSBAND/FATHER!