“Mother Denied Aid Shoots Children, Self”
December 12, 2011
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog
MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org
So reads a very small headline in the December 7th Washington Post. The brief item states that a 38-year-old Texan mother of two was “unable to qualify for food stamps for months." She walked into the state welfare office, initiating a seven hour standoff with authorities, during which she shot her 12-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son. The she killed herself.
A spokesperson for the welfare office said the mother “didn’t submit enough information.”
Perhaps they feel like they have enough information now?
‘Til next time,
Your (Wo)Man in Washington
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