Akon Guode
A heartless mother has done the unthinkable after she drove her three daughters into a lake to their deaths.
A mother has pleaded guilty to killing three of her seven children,
and trying to kill a fourth, by driving into a lake at Wyndham Vale in
Melbourne’s south-west, ABCNet reports.
The woman identified as Akon Guode, 37, showed little emotion as
she pleaded guilty to the infanticide of her one-year-old son Bol, the
murder of four-year-old twins, Hanger and Madit, and the attempted
murder of her five-year-old daughter Alual in 2015.
The mother’s plea in the Victorian Supreme Court came at a mention
hearing before she was due to stand trial. As the charges were read to
her, through the help of an interpreter, the only words she said were
"guilty" to each charge.
She initially claimed she was not responsible because she was under
the "spell" of witchcraft at the time. Now she has admitted charges of
murder and attempted murder.
It was gathered that the woman had in 2015 driven her children into
a lake drowning them in the process. Passersby and emergency services
frantically tried to help Guode and her children after her car plunged
deep into Lake Gladman at Wyndham Vale.
Alual survived after being pulled from the water and sent to
hospital. A police statement publicly released in July last year alleged
Guode spoke about killing herself and her children on the day of the
tragedy.
A court hearing was previously told she drove by a lake at Wyndham
Vale five times before "deliberately and consciously" driving into the
water.
Guode’s eldest daughter had testified that her mother had dizzy spells six months before she drove into the lake.
Mother escaped war in South Sudan
Guode came to Australia from South Sudan to escape war after her
first husband died. She had been having a long affair with the father of
the children involved in the incident, Joseph Manyang.
Mr Manyang separated from his wife after Hanger and Madit were born
and the affair became public, but lived separately from Guode and her
children.
The court was earlier told Guode became too frightened to interact
with the Sudanese community. Mr Manyang described Guode as a caring and
loving mother.
During a court hearing Guode collapsed and wailed as a harrowing
triple-0 call from the incident was played in court. Following the
deaths of the children there was an outpouring of grief from the local
Sudanese community.
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