Irish Mom Stabbed Toddler To Death, Left 1YO Fighting For Their Life

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A HORRIFIED dad called 999 after his wife reportedly stabbed her three-year-old child to death and left their baby fighting for life in a farmhouse bloodbath.

Fiona Magowan, is currently under police custody in hospital.

She remains in a critical condition with a knife wound in hospital, while her one-year-old baby is also fighting for life.

Police reponded to the home in the sleepy village of Magheramorne, Northern Ireland, at around 10.30am yesterday.

They discovered the three-year-old toddler knifed to death inside the isolated farmhouse and the mum, aged in her 30s, and baby injured.

Fiona's two older children were at school at the time of the horror and her husband was at work, Belfast Telegraph reports.

The family of six moved into the rented home in January 2019 and have mainly "kept themselves to themselves".

Devastated neighbours have described the toddler as "beautiful and very young".

Horrified dad called 999 after nurse wife allegedly 'stabbed kid to death and left baby fighting for life in bloodbath'

A HORRIFIED dad called 999 after his wife reportedly stabbed her three-year-old child to death and left their baby fighting for life in a farmhouse bloodbath. The nurse, named locally as Fiona Mago…

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[BuffettGirl]

I wonder what signs she might have displayed before this tragedy happened?

 

[Sugar Cookie]

It has become a lot easier for women in Ireland in recent years. (My mom was from Ireland)

If she had child after child I wonder if she was dealing with PPD and never had it treated between each child's birth.

 

[GreenEyedDevil]

Farmhouse bloodbath sounds like a low budget horror movie. How did she get the knife wound?

 

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The mother is a nurse, according to neighbours who have spoken of their shock at the stabbing.

 

[Sejanus]

Fiona flipped.

 

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A County Antrim woman has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years for the murder and attempted murder of her two sons.

In what the judge described as a "savage attack", the 42-year-old stabbed her two-year-old son to death on 2 March 2020.


She also attempted to kill his 11-month-old brother.

The children were given the names "John" and "Gerard" to protect the surviving child's identity.

The court heard the children would have felt "severe pain and distress" despite their mother placing morphine patches on both infants before the attack.

The woman received an automatic life sentence for the murder charge.

Noting that the youngest child would also have died if it had not been for the intervention of the emergency services, Judge Patricia Smyth also imposed a life sentence for the attempted murder.

The judge told the woman she would spend a minimum of 20 years in prison before she could be considered for release.

The court previously heard that the victims were found by their father in a master bedroom upstairs with their mother.

He had returned from work and called an ambulance after a series of text messages from his partner, which ended with her texting she had killed the boys and that she was dying too.

The woman originally pleaded not guilty to the offences and put forward a defence of diminished responsibility at a trial earlier this year.

When that medical defence proved unsustainable after examination by medical experts, she changed her pleas to guilty on both counts.

The judge also rejected the woman's claim that she had been previously subjected to emotional abuse by the children's father.

"This tragic case also brought to light an underlying element of domestic abuse.

"Throughout the case, the father of the children, along with a previous husband of the defendant, spoke of the controlling behaviour and emotional abuse that both had suffered at the hands of the defendant.

"Their distress was added to by allegations by the defendant herself that she had been the subject of domestic abuse, which were unsubstantiated."

Det Insp Griffin also said: "Domestic abuse is not just physical. It can happen to anyone and there shouldn't be any stigma surrounding male victims.

Antrim mother jailed for murder of two-year-old son

The 42-year-old was given a 20-year sentence for the murder and attempted murder of her children.

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