KILLER MOTHER STABBED 3 CHILDREN TO DEATH • An increasingly unhinged Riggi had been locked in an argument with her estranged husband Pasquale about custody of her children, twins Austin and Luke, eight, and Cecilia, five, for many months. • The children’s education remained a central bone of contention, however. While their father wanted them to attend school, their mother was a passionate believer in home schooling. • It was on August 2, the eve of the scheduled court hearing, that Riggi had a telephone conversation with her husband and told him: ‘Say goodbye then.’ • She was not present in court the following day. It was as a result of her absence that Mr Riggi’s defence counsel David Jack told Lady Clarke ‘there is a real emergency in this matter’. She immediately ordered social workers to supervise the children. • Tragically, the order came too late. The horrific truth was that Riggi would prefer all three of her children to be dead than in the care of her husband. • He said: ‘The hardest moment without a doubt was when I first found out. Your life is all about your children, you have plans and you have dreams for them. ‘In one instant, that’s gone.’ • Jailing Riggi for 16 years, judge Lord Bracadale told her that, whatever her mental state, the level of violence she had shown in killing her children was simply ‘inexplicable’. • In the event, Riggi served less than three years of her sentence. There can be little doubt that in her own disturbed mind, the final victory in her custody battle lay in the afterlife where she expected to be reunited with her young ones. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578019/Im-not-meant-Im-meant-babies-What-killer-mother-told-chaplain-stabbing-three-children-death-act-unspeakable-horror.html?ito=email-homenewsletter-20140311
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