SC police: Mom killed children before sinking car

(AP Photo/Orangeburg Sheriff's Department via The Times and Democrat)

In this photo provided by the Orangeburg Sheriff's Department via The Times and Democrat, Shaquan Duley, 29, is shown. After the bodies of two toddlers were pulled Monday Aug. 16, 2010, from a car submerged in a South Carolina river, their mother Duley was arrested and authorities were investigating how it happened _ and whether it was an accident.

ORANGEBURG, S.C. — A South Carolina mother who claimed her children drowned when their car careened into a river was charged with murder Tuesday after authorities said she confessed to suffocating the two toddlers and then faking the accident.
Sheriff Larry Williams said 29-year-old Shaquan Duley told investigators she was distraught about money troubles and unemployment and that she killed her children by putting her hand over their mouths after a dispute with her own mother. He says Duley then strapped the children into her car and drove it into a river Monday morning.
"This was a young lady that was in trouble, in trouble in more ways than she realized," Williams said. "She was in trouble and she didn't know where to turn."
Williams said the responsibilities of being a mother were simply too much for Duley, who didn't show signs of remorse during an overnight interview with authorities.
Two-year-old Devean C. Duley and 18-month-old Ja'van T. Duley were dead in their child seats by the time divers got to the car Monday near a rural boat landing on the North Edisto River in Orangeburg, some 35 miles south of Columbia, the state capital.
The Highway Patrol was notified around 6:15 a.m. Monday that a woman needed help getting her children out of a car. Duley, who did not have a cell phone, had walked some distance down the country road by the boat landing and flagged down a passing motorist to call the Highway Patrol.
Duley was to be arraigned later Wednesday.

This woman was wrong for what she did to her children but it sounds like she has some mental issues going on. I wonder what happened to her in her life to have made her feel that it was all right to kill her children because she couldn't take care of them. Especially, since there are a lot of people who would have helped her like churches, social services etc.  She showed no signs of remorse and that tells me she does have mental issues and that she felt it was ok. this tells me she is probably a PSYCHOPATH.

Psychopaths gain satisfaction through antisocial behavior, and do not experience shame, guilt, or remorse for their actions.^[12][13][14] Psychopaths lack a sense of guilt or remorse for any harm they may have caused others, instead rationalizing the behavior, blaming someone else, or denying it outright.^[15] Psychopaths also lack empathy towards others in general, resulting in tactlessness, insensitivity, and contemptuousness. All of this belies their tendency to make a good, likable first impression. Psychopaths have a superficial charm about them, enabled by a willingness to say anything without concern for accuracy or truth. Shallow affect also describes the psychopath's tendency for genuine emotion to be short lived and egocentric with an overall cold demeanor. Their behavior is impulsive and irresponsible, often failing to keep a job or defaulting on debts.^[15] Psychopaths also have a markedly distorted sense of the potential consequences of their actions, not only for others, but also for themselves. They do not deeply recognize the risk of being caught, disbelieved or injured as a result of their behaviour.^[16]

 

 

^{GOD BLESS THESE LITTLE BABIES WHOSE LIVES WERE CUT SHORT.}