BELLEFONTAINE (AP) – Authorities say a woman has confessed to killing her three young sons over the past several months because her husband ignored their daughter.
Police in Bellefontaine say Brittany Pilkington is charged with three counts of murder after she calmly called 911 on Tuesday to report that her baby son wasn’t breathing (listen below), and then hours later confessed to killing him and her two other young sons over the past several months.
Three-month-old Noah died Tuesday, Four-year-old Gavin died in April and three-month-old Niall died in July 2014.
Logan County prosecutor William Goslee tells The Columbus Dispatch the mother admitted suffocating the boys. He says in her mind “she was protecting her daughter from being not as loved as the boys were by their father.”
Three-year-old daughter Hailey is with a child welfare agency.
The mother has been jailed. No working telephone number for the family’s home can be found. No attorney information is available for her.