Woman Sacrifices Children

from CNN

A woman accused of killing her three young sons by tossing them into frigid San Francisco Bay believed God summoned her to sacrifice her children.

Lashaun Harris, 23, was arrested last October, shortly after she dropped her children, one by one, over a rail and into the bay.

Harris, who faces three counts of murder, has pleaded not guilty. She was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic with delusional thought disorder and was hospitalized once because she said God was telling her to jump out a window.

She told the investigators God "said I need to kill my kids," and she took them to the pier for that purpose. Police officer Thomas Johnson testified that he found Harris at the scene pushing an empty stroller. "Where did you put the babies?" he asked. Harris replied, "They're OK. They're with their father."