news story - sisters kill alcoholic mother
 

This is a current news story in Canada.
Two teen sisters murdered their alcoholic mother in cold blood, and got away with it, until they started telling friends about what they had done.

The shocking thing is that they apparently told friends that they were planning to do it, before they killed her. This story might have had a different ending if those girls had been exposed to Al-ateen or Alanon.

I am troubled by the implication that the Alcoholism of the mother was a mitigating factor. Nobody deserves to be murdered in cold blood by her own kids.

http://news.*****.com/s/cpress/20051...rime_mom_slain

That is extremely disturbing.

How awful.....Just goes to show what happens
when you are ignorant to the disease and all it involves.

I know this story is old; I found it through the "similar threads" feature. I looked it up.

"During the sentencing phase, court heard how the girls sought help from the Children's Aid Society, their father, other relatives and their mother's friends about her increasing alcohol use that basically left them to run the family home and take care of their younger half-brother. They also repeatedly argued with their mother about her excessive drinking. But nobody offered any help and they eventually decided that killing their mother was the only way out.
Both girls actually viewed their mother's murder as a mercy killing, court transcripts indicated."

What do they mean nobody offered any help?

Choublak, I'm guessing "nobody" means "neither family nor government" offered any help. Which wouldn't be unheard of.