Why did they bother saving her pathetic life...

Mother Smothers Three Children / Sunday, January 29, 2006

DE QUEEN, Ark. — A mother accused of smothering her three young children left notes in the home that could help investigators determine what led to the killings, officials said Sunday. Paula Eleazar Mendez, 43, was in a county jail Sunday after being treated at a hospital for swallowing a toxic substance.

She had collapsed as officers arrived at her home Saturday morning in response to a telephone call from the children's father in New York. Inside the home, the officers found the bodies of the children, ages 6 to 8, lying side-by-side on a bed, said Chris Brackett, an investigator with the Sevier County Sheriff's Office.

"I do not believe there is any dispute as to who killed these three children, and therefore who will be charged," prosecutor Tom Cooper said. "However, we have not determined at this time the particular homicide charge or punishment we will be seeking."

Cooper said an emergency room doctor told him Mendez had not ingested enough of the toxic
substance to kill herself.

...when what they should have done was given her more of the toxic substance?!