Palma (EFE) murder.
According to the investigators, the suspect, of Honduran origin, gave her two minor children sedatives and then prepared food for the three, which she allegedly poisoned with rat poison, as detailed by the National Police in a statement.
The father of the minors notified the police.
The alleged perpetrator of the events, who also took pills and drank salfumán, notified her ex-partner, the father of one of the minors, of what was happening, who alerted the police to the situation.
The agents arrested the woman at the Son Espases University Hospital in Palma for trying to end the life of her minor children after giving them medicine, while she took salfumán to commit suicide, which she did not achieve. The children are hospitalized and out of danger.
rat poison at home
The agents of the Homicide group of the National Police who undertook the investigation into these events, which occurred early Sunday morning, found numerous medications at the home, many of them benzodiazepines, and a box of rat poison inside which was missing more than the half.
The policemen collected data and took samples of the food consumed by the woman and children for analysis. They also found out that the mother, on at least two occasions, tried to suffocate her four-year-old daughter, for which the detainee was brought to justice and provisional detention was decreed.