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These are the (shocking!) facts: Three small kids were found dead this Saturday, after their pregnant mother had been savagely slain. Jimella Tunstall, mother of three and pregnant with another child, was 23 in her death.

The coroner believes her death was caused by excessive bleeding from her abdomen – after the fetus had been taken out of her body with a sharp object, probably scissors. The primal suspect is the mother’s childhood friend and the one who looked after the kids in their mother’s absence.

These are the facts. Do you want to know what people had to “talkback” about this story? Believe me, you don’t. I’m sorry, but I’m not making this up. Comments written originally in Hebrew in different local news sites:

- “That’s what happens when you don’t look after your kids properly”;
- “She must’ve been Arab, look at her name. So her family must have done this to save the family’s reputation”;
- “A baby factory – and at such an early age! How careless”;
- “Such a thing will never happen here, in Israel. Crazy Americans, too many McDonald’s meals”;
- “Mothers! That’s why you should stay at home with your kids Decide whether you want a career or raise your children. You have to sacrifice yourself for them”;
- “Nannies are filthy, they steal and eat and talk all day using your phone bill”…

It goes on and on. There are, of course, some sane voices here and there, but it’s much too overwhelming to first read the horrible details of the article and then freak out even more by the crazy reactions written by so many actual living people.
Perhaps we really should stop and think if we want to bring children to this psychotic world.