GUILTY New Zealand - Dr. Lauren Dickason, 40, charged w/killing her 3 young daughters, Timaru, 16 Sep 2021

[Marysmith]

Wow. This is brutal.

 

[kiwi50]

I’ll wait to see if it was really the mother who killed them.

Sadly TGY there doesn’t seem to be any doubt in this case.
That’s not to say NZ police always get it right.

 

[they'll get you]

A doctor charged with killing her three daughters may have been stressed after quarantining in the move from South Africa to New Zealand, a former neighbour of the family has said.

Mum charged with killing 3 children 'may have struggled with hotel quarantine'

 

[they'll get you]

Writing on May 1, she said: “What an adventure. We have truly created a beautiful family and had many good times together.

“May the next years be more blessed, more happy and may the kids let us sleep.”

Mum charged with killing 3 children 'may have struggled with hotel quarantine'

 

[they'll get you]

Lauren was used to having a nanny but then thrown into a hotel room for 2 weeks with twin babies, a 6 year old and a husband.

How much support was she receiving?
This is truly devastating.

My daughter spent 2 weeks quarantine with a balcony and she still says it was the hardest time of her life.

I have a feeling that quarantine period might have been the tipping point. Who knows what other underlying personal problems they were suffering.

 

[they'll get you]

Nobody yet knows what triggered South African mom Lauren Dickason to murder her three daughters on Thursday, just over a week after they began their new life in New Zealand… but another South African mom, living in Sudan, has written a heartfelt post sharing her own near-tragic personal experience that sheds some light on mental health issues.

SA Mom in Sudan Shares Her Painful Experience in Wake of Lauren Dickason Tragedy

 

[dotr]

This is awful.
Dickason children were strangled with cable ties | Citypress

 

[they'll get you]

This is awful.
Dickason children were strangled with cable ties | Citypress

Now I'm not so compassionate.
The ties did it for her.

 

[dotr]

Now I'm not so compassionate.
The ties did it for her.

This seems to be the only link with that info. so far- going to double check and hope it is a rumour.

 

[JDG]

Postpartum depression is my best guess.

Until recently she had lots of support, doctors are not supposed to be ‘weak’ and she hid it well until left in a hotel room without supports.

Won’t be surprised if she had a psychotic break.

PPD is very real, under reported.

She did comment on lack of sleep, possibly the only ‘hint’ of her distress.

We all suffer from lack of sleep with young children, it would be easily explained with twin two year olds, three kiddies under six.

I’m very sympathetic to the whole family, it’s a dreadful tragedy.

 

[JayWill]

Postpartum depression is my best guess.

Until recently she had lots of support, doctors are not supposed to be ‘weak’ and she hid it well until left in a hotel room without supports.

Won’t be surprised if she had a psychotic break.

PPD is very real, under reported.

I cannot believe that two weeks in a hotel room unhinged someone that much. Something else would have triggered it if not that.
She probably had domestic help and a nanny in SA.

 

[Marysmith]

Now I'm not so compassionate.
The ties did it for her.

I get it. Me too. JMO.

 

[Marysmith]

I cannot believe that two weeks in a hotel room unhinged someone that much. Something else would have triggered it if not that.
She probably had domestic help and a nanny in SA.

She did. She had a nanny. I cannot either. I had to isolate for 24 days in frigid cold in a tiny apartment with my daughter. But I’m not in her shoes. This one is hard and I hope we find out what happened to prevent it from happening again and helping others see maybe some signs.

 

[dotr]

Postpartum depression is my best guess.

Until recently she had lots of support, doctors are not supposed to be ‘weak’ and she hid it well until left in a hotel room without supports.

Won’t be surprised if she had a psychotic break.

PPD is very real, under reported.

She did comment on lack of sleep, possibly the only ‘hint’ of her distress.

We all suffer from lack of sleep with young children, it would be easily explained with twin two year olds, three kiddies under six.

Reminded of this horrible tragedy, never forgot it..
2000 rbbm.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mother-who-killed-son-on-subway-dies-of-injuries-1.236385
''A Toronto doctor who jumped in front of a subway train while cradling her baby son died of her injuries Saturday night. She had been in hospital for nine days.
Suzanne Killinger-Johnson, 37, leapt in front of a moving train with her sleeping child around 7 a.m. Aug. 11.
The six-month-old boy, Cuyler, died instantly.''
''Experts believed she may have been suffering from the most serious type of postpartum depression, which can drive mothers to kill their children in a demented act of love.''
''It's believed she had stopped taking anti-depressant drugs because she was worried the medication might harm her son, who was breast-feeding.

Her mother, psychologist Dr. Barbara Killinger, has written books on stress, depression, and anxiety. Her father is also a doctor.''

 

[lizzied]

Now I'm not so compassionate.
The ties did it for her.

yeah...that took longer than it would take to call her husband, the concierge, anyone...is hotel quarantine syndrome even a thing. sorry-- but being a physician she knew very well strangulation is a long death. she killed her children manually and slowly . i am sure she is not able to live with herself at this point.

 

[Marysmith]

yeah...that took longer than it would take to call her husband, the concierge, anyone...is hotel quarantine syndrome even a thing. sorry-- but being a physician she knew very well strangulation is a long death. she killed her children manually and slowly . i am sure she is not able to live with herself at this point.

I believe they were living in a house reserved for hospital staff. The 2 weeks at the hotel was done.

 

[lizzied]

I believe they were living in a house reserved for hospital staff. The 2 weeks at the hotel was done.

so surrounded by medical professionals...even worse.

 

[JDG]

so surrounded by medical professionals...even worse.

Medical professionals are people first.

With all the problems, stresses of life same as their patients.

Anyone can have PPD or other mental breaks, anyone.

To me, it’s very telling that she was taken to a hospital, not a jail.

It must have been very obvious to the first responders that this was not your ‘average’ killing spree.

 

[lizzied]

Medical professionals are people first.

With all the problems, stresses of life same as their patients.

Anyone can have PPD or other mental breaks, anyone.

To me, it’s very telling that she was taken to a hospital, not a jail.

It must have been very obvious to the first responders that this was not your ‘average’ killing spree.

I don't disagree, being in medicine there is a higher rate of physician suicide than ever. . . but that sticking point is the time it took. Ten pm at night is late for anyone to return home for a spouse, i can't imagine his horror.

 

[dotr]

Timaru tragedy: Wider family of three South African girls killed in New Zealand being helped to travel here - NZ Herald
''The wider family of three young South African girls who died weeks after arriving in New Zealand with their parents will be considered for emergency MIQ spaces, a Government official says.''

The public have begun leaving flowers and teddies outside a Queen St, Timaru house where the bodies of three young sisters were found on Thursday. Photo / George Heard
''The 40-year-old medical professional, who arrived in Timaru from South Africa - via MIQ - with her orthopaedic surgeon husband and their three daughters just over a week ago, was remanded in custody to a secure forensic mental health unit by Judge Dominic Dravitzki until her next appearance in the High Court at Timaru on October 5.

No plea was entered at the court appearance, her first since being charged.''