MercuryNews.com 10/21/2005 Relative: Suspect said she wanted to 'feed the kids to the sharks'
"An Oakland woman accused of throwing her three young sons off a pier to their death in San Francisco Bay on Wednesday had been treated for mental illness and reportedly told her mother earlier that day she wanted to ``feed the kids to the sharks.''
Lashuan Harris, 23, who had been living with the children at an Oakland homeless shelter, was a doting mother, according to her 16-year-old sister, Britney Fitzpatrick. So when Harris made that chilling statement to her mother, Britney said the family did not take it seriously.
``She's been going crazy for a while,'' Britney, who lives with Harris' mother, told reporters Thursday morning at Pier 7, where Harris allegedly threw the children into the bay. ``She told my Mama she was going to feed the kids to the sharks yesterday morning. We didn't believe her.''
Some of us can remember a time when such an act would be described as the monstrosity that it is, and the person, someone named Lashuan, vilified as a nightmarish creature in human form, but so very many children are abused and killed and taught to be nothing more than fodder for a policemans gun we've become somewhat desensitized by what modern "civilization" has wrought.
The family did not take it seriously, and that says it all.
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