It is claimed a mother who stands accused of murdering her three children allegedly sent a number of chilling texts about them, as she has taken an insanity plea in court.

As per the Daily Mail, 42-year-old Lauren Anne Dickason is on trial regarding the deaths of her three daughters - Liane, six, and twins Maya and Karla, both two - who she has been accused of murdering.

The children were found dead at their home in Timaru in New Zealand on September 16, 2021. Dickason has admitted that she killed the three children but denies that it was murder as her legal team seeks to get her a not guilty verdict by the reason of insanity.

According to the New Zealand Herald, the accused mother sent a series of shocking texts prior to the deaths of her children, allegedly detailing that she was frustrated by them.

Dating back to 2016, Dickason claimed via text that her children had "killed all the passion and a lot of the happiness," in her life and that she "wanted a day alone" as they were "making [her] crazy".

One message explained that she, along with her husband Graham, were going to put their foot down when it came to bad behavior, and alleged that the children had been hitting them.

"Our children will not abuse and scream at us and hit us any further," she wrote. "From [now] on they will get hidings and all their nice things will be held back until they start showing some respect.

"Tonight they threw corn at me and said the meat is disgusting. Then they hit me when I told them off. Maybe the twins are just in terrible twos but f***, they are going to kill me. I was so angry tonight, I was shaking."

Another message stated that Liane had kept her up all night and that she had sent her to school otherwise she would have "strangled her".

Expressing that the children "really tire me out physically and emotionally," Dickason appeared to suggest that she was suffering from depression.

"[The children] sniff me out wherever I go and if they can't find me they start screaming hysterically," another message read. "Other people make it all look so easy that I feel abnormal because I perceive it as intense and I struggle to enjoy it [being a mum to twins]."

The prosecution alleges that the text messages indicate that the killing of the three children was "methodically and purposefully, perhaps even clinically" carried out.

While acknowledging that the mother-of-three was depressed, they believe that she was sound of mind when her daughters were killed.

Dickason's lawyer Kerryn Beaton said: "This tragic event happened because Lauren was in such a dark place so removed from reality, so suicidal, and so disordered in her thinking that when she decided to kill herself that night, she thought she had to take the girls with her."

Following the discovery of the deceased children by her husband, Dickason was remanded in custody in a hospital's psychiatric unit and has remained there since.

The trial will proceed for the next two weeks and experts will determine whether Dickason was and is of sound mind.

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A father in Victoria, Australia, has stood before the state's Supreme Court to make a heartbreaking speech following the murder of his son in 2020.

Per News.com.au, farmer Jon Lovison and his wife Dianne made a devastating speech to the woman who was involved in their son Jarrad's death. He was allegedly lured to remote bushland by 26-year-old Samantha Grace Guillerme - a woman he allegedly sought a romantic connection with - who apparently believed Jarrad would be badly injured by two men, but not murdered.

Guillerme was set to stand trial with two men over the death but pleaded not guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter when it became evident she wasn't sure what was going to happen to Jarrad. The court heard how the murder occurred after Jarrad reportedly slept with a woman who was dating one of the men accused of killing him.

Jarrad, 30, allegedly died after being forced to consume a lethal amount of GHB - also known as the date rape drug - at gunpoint in April 2020.

Guillerme reportedly waited in the car throughout the ordeal, with court documents revealing that she believed Jarred was going to "have the s*** kicked out of him."

In his statement, Jarrad's father told Guillerme and the court: "Jay, our beautiful son, was the light in our lives, and we loved him so much. He was our only child left; we'd lost our daughter 14 years ago to suicide. He was the most beautiful, loving, caring, soft-hearted, cuddly, sweet little boy who grew into the most beautiful, loving, caring, sweet and compassionate gentle giant of a man you could ever meet."

"And now Jay's been ripped away from us in the most horrific way," he continued, directing his words at Guillerme. "You have taken him from us. You have totally ripped our lives and our hearts apart and they'll never be whole again.

"You had no right to do that. You have devastated us, you have crushed us, you have destroyed our lives in so many ways and you could not even begin to comprehend our lives as they are now. We cannot sleep at night because what you have done to Jay torments our nights," he added.

"Because of your betrayal to our Jay, you have done the most horrific thing possible to our baby. You planned to do this, you planned it all and he was lured (unwittingly) by you to his death in the most evil and sinister way.

"You tricked him, you tricked him, Samantha. He trusted you, Samantha. He liked you a lot and you liked him. You used to come to our home, Jay's home, you would talk to Di and myself for hours day after day," he said.

The emotional statement ended with Jarred's father telling the court he hoped Guillerme would go to jail "for a very, very long time."

Guillerme is set to be sentenced in February next year.

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A chilling text message sent by a woman to her son has been revealed in court after her own elderly mother died in her "putrid" home.

Julie Lynette Delaney, 61, had appeared at Brisbane Supreme Court in Australia following the death of her 82-year-old mother, Noelene.

It comes after emergency services were called to the home where Noelene was living, to find her severely underweight, in a squalid bedroom with bedding and towels covered in feces, shortly before she died.

During her trial, text messages Julie had sent her son shortly before her mother died have been revealed.

As reported by News.com.au, details of Noelene's horrific death were revealed after Julie pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

The court heard how the elderly woman had been left covered in feces and at times was left sitting for hours on a couch that had been converted into a makeshift toilet.

On the day that Noelene died, September 18, 2020, Julie had sent her son, Scott Delaney, a series of messages, which were read out in court by Crown Prosecutor Caroline Marco.

Julie messaged Scott - who is not accused of any wrongdoing and is not facing any charges in relation to Noelene's death - that she was struggling to move Noelene.

She wrote at around 10AM: "I can’t get her (Noelene) up, she’s dead weight," to which Scott responded: "Is she dead?"

Julie then replied: "No, she is alive," to which Scott asked: "Is she breathing or talking?"

She then told him: "She is breathing but she mumbled," and when asked if she could understand what Noelene was saying, Julie added: "Sometimes I can."

Scott then told her: "Hand wash her, I'll be there this afternoon."

The next text message from Julie came in the afternoon, at 3:30PM, when she asked him: "Can you help me please?"

The pair then had a brief conversation in which Julie indicated something was wrong with her mother, before Scott arrived at the Pimpama property on the Gold Coast after 5PM.

The court heard that Scott was then confronted with a horrific scene, finding Noelene lying on the couch covered in feces, struggling to breathe, and making "groaning noises".

The court heard that "Mr Delaney yelled at the defendant ‘what have you done?’ and told her to clean the deceased up."

Scott then phoned for the emergency services, who found Noelene unresponsive in the home.

When they tried to treat her, Noelene went into cardiac arrest and was unable to be resuscitated.

The court heard that the home was littered with soiled towels, clothing, and bedding as well as feces, and that there was no fresh food, fruit, or vegetables in the home.

The bedroom Noelene had been living in had just two single beds which had been pushed together, and only dirty blankets and no sheets.

Ms Marco added: "While police were at the address the defendant removed a soiled blanket from the deceased’s bed and hid it in the cupboard, under the stairs, which police located.

"The house emanated a strong, putrid odor."

Noelene weighed just over 49kg (108lb) at the time of her death, which was ruled to have been down to sepsis as a consequence of, or due to, malnutrition.

Other significant featured including Alzheimer’s disease, hypotension, pulmonary disease, and drug toxicity were noted, as well as ulcers, which showed no signs of having been treated, leading to fluid and protein loss and contributing to the malnutrition.

Tragically, Ms Marco added: "A pattern of the fabric weave was imprinted into portions of the ulcer."

Noelene was also found to have had bacterial infections in her gall bladder and urinary tract as well as lesions and ulcers along her lower back, buttocks, upper thighs, as well as her genitalia.

Julie told police when questioned that she had never mistreated her mother, claiming that she had attended a doctor’s appointment on the day of her mother’s death and returned home to find her unconscious.

She also claimed that she hadn't received any support from social services in regards to care for her mother, despite Ms Marco revealing that Julie had missed calls regarding her mother's treatment and physical therapy.

When asked about her overall feeling towards the care she gave her mother, Julie responded: "I know I did a sh***y job, I know it’s wrong, but there’s no way I would ever harm her. I’m not 100 percent sure, but I did all right, I think, but I’m not happy about it."

Doctors believed that Julie suffered from schizophrenia and showed "borderline cognitive functions with deficits across the board”, with her Legal Aid lawyer telling the court that the 61-year-old did not appear to be aware of her impairments, which affected her reasoning and meant she wasn't aware her care for Noelene was below par.

Julie was handed a five-year sentence on Wednesday for the manslaughter of her 82-year-old mother, but the term was wholly suspended on the basis that further time in custody would only undo her ongoing rehabilitation.

Her son, Scott, who assisted with Noelene’s care by paying bills, delivering groceries on request, and taking her to appointments, is not accused of any wrongdoing nor facing any charges.

Supreme Court Justice Melanie Hindman told the court: "(Noelene) ended her life in a way nobody would want to.

"No one would want to see any of their family end in the way she did.

“Your impairments do need to be taken into account. They do affect – not wholly but in a substantial way – your moral culpability for the offending.”

She added that it was a "terrible" failure of the system that meant Julie ended up as the primary carer for her mother, adding: "It’s impossible for me not to have very strong regard to the misery your mother must have suffered in the last days of her life."

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A father who has been charged with murdering his son allegedly left a haunting note before setting his vehicle on fire.

On March 28, concerned family members called Sayreville police to report Manuel Rivera, 43, and nine-year-old Christian Rivera missing after the father allegedly threatened to kill himself and his son following a dispute, as reported by News 12.

As authorities responded to that call, they received reports of a fire near Sayreville War Memorial High School around 10:45PM. Once they arrived, they discovered Manuel's car burning in the school parking lot with the body of his son inside, per The New York Post.

It has also been reported that cops found the man with burns and a laceration to his throat. In addition to this, surveillance footage allegedly showed him pulling into the parking lot, and then dousing the vehicle with gasoline before setting it aflame.

Christian was pronounced dead at the scene, but his cause of death is pending an autopsy.

Prosecutors have charged his father with aggravated arson, murder, endangering the welfare of a child, and desecration of human remains, per CBS News.

According to police documents obtained by News 12, the suspect allegedly owned up to the heinous crime and apologized to his wife in a video sent just before he carried out the murder. He also reportedly told her they’d see each other in the afterlife and asked for his remains to be cremated.

Manuel also reportedly left a chilling handwritten letter at home with a similar message, which read: "This is how it ends for me and [their son]. I know we couldn’t live without each other. Today is the day that death does us part," as cited by Patch.

The Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office revealed that he is currently hospitalized at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and has not been processed through the system to face that first-degree murder charge yet.

Christian was a student at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in Sayreville, NJ. com reported. He was also a member of the Sayreville Bombers youth football team, which held a candlelight vigil Saturday (March 30) night on the Junior Bombers football field.

Mayor Kennedy O'Brien released an emotional statement saying the community is safe and "stands in solidarity" with the child and his loved ones.

"On this Good Friday, Sayreville is waking up to learn of a horrific incident that occurred overnight that shakes our community to its core: the loss of a nine-year-old child, allegedly at the hands of a parent. Any time such senseless violence involves one of our children, it gravely affects all of Sayreville," O'Brien wrote.

Neighbors were also left stunned by the heartbreaking news. Leonardo DaSilva, who lives around the corner from the family, said that his son went to elementary school with Christian.

"I had to tell my kids, which was not the best time, to make him try to understand. So he's kind of upset inside," said DaSilva. "He was a very happy kid, always running around."

"Super sad. I have my own 8-year-old and he's the same way. So just looking at my kid, and I imagine he's here, I mean that hurts. So I feel for the family. I really do," he added.

Our thoughts are with Christian's loved ones at this devastating time.

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