SAD: Frustrated Mom Murders Her 3 Disabled Kids

A 42 year old mother whose three youngest children suffered from the degenerative condition spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) has been charged with murder for killing her kids. The disabled children were found in their £2million home, smothered to death. Continue to read….

Tania Clarence who is a graphic designer gave up her career to be there her children who needed to be highly and frequently cared for.

According to Daily News UK,

The family had spent almost a year renovating their home in New Malden to make it suitable for their disabled children – fitting a lift and ramps. A friend said that the three children had to be fed through tubes and their parents had to administer medicine hourly, which was understood to have put a huge amount of pressure on Mrs Clarence. And while the couple employed a carer and home help, they did not have round-the-clock assistance.

The friend added: “Everything was regulated, everything they ate diarised. I bet Tania had not had a decent night’s sleep in a few years. Gary is a businessman and had to travel. Tania has borne the brunt of it. Everybody who met her could not but be compassionate. Everybody complains about their kids but at least they’re healthy. It puts your life into perspective.”

Another friend said Mrs Clarence had complained that she found social services tended to be ‘judgmental’ when she asked for help. Officials took the attitude she should ‘get on with it and pull herself together’, they said.

Friends of the family decided to alert the police on Tuesday after they were unable to contact the family for 24 hours. The children were discovered in their pyjamas in bed and are believed to have been smothered to death.

The devoted mom has been accused of killing her three-year-old twin sons, Ben and Max, and four-year-old daughter Olivia, who all suffered from a degenerative condition sometimes described as ‘floppy baby syndrome’. She was charged hours after her investment banker husband Gary Clarence flew home to Britain from a trip to his native South Africa.

He was said to be in a ‘state of shock’, and the family’s lawyers in Cape Town yesterday released a statement which spoke of him suffering from ‘tremendous pressure and strain’. It said: ‘The Clarence family have undergone and suffered an extreme tragedy with regard to their three minor children in the United Kingdom. This matter is an extremely exceptional one, with devastating consequences.’ Mr Clarence, 43, was seeing relatives in his native South Africa with his eldest child Taya Grace, eight – who is not affected by the illness – to celebrate her birthday when he heard about the devastating news.

They both flew to the UK today along with his mother Anne and sister Derri Phillips, who accompanied him for support.