COLUMBUS – A Bellefontaine woman accused of killing her three young sons out of jealousy at the attention her husband paid could face the death penalty, but the prosecutor in the case says it isn’t likely that Brittany Pilkington will receive the law’s maximum sentence.
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“I have yet to find a woman who is a mother – and, trust me, I’ve asked a few – I have not found one yet that is willing to say she should get the death penalty” Logan County Prosecutor William Goslee said.
Pilkington is being held on $1 million bond it is expected that she will be indicted on three counts of aggravated murder.
Because there were multiple killings and the victims were children, Goslee could seek the death penalty, though he doesn’t think the crimes would meet a jury’s criteria.
“To imagine a jury that would say that this is a person with a depraved heart that should die at the hands of some chemistry, I don’t think that’s likely,” he said.
Pilkington is accused of murdering her three young since over the course of the past 13 months because she believed her 3-year-old daughter was being neglected by her father.