Mother Smothered Kids Because She Wanted to Be 'Free'

Shaquan Duley, of South Carolina, has confessed to suffocating her two young boys, strapping them into their car seats and driving the vehicle into a river early Monday morning. She initially told police it was an accident, but she wasn't wet and she didn't bang on the doors of any of the neighbors near the river, instead she walked almost a mile to get help. Huge red flags!

The 29-year-old told police she was "fed up" and wanted to be "free" from the trappings of being a mother and she was tired of getting into arguments with her own mother on how she was raising her kids. She suffocated the children at a local motel then drove their lifeless bodies to the river and drove the car into the river.

"She lived at mom's house, probably ate her mom's food... she had very little control. in her thoughts, except her children," Orangeburg County Sheriff Larry Williams said said. "I think she truly felt, 'If I don't have these two toddlers, I can be free.'"

Any chance of her being "free" now is pretty unlikely since she's facing two charges of murder in the death of 18-month-old Ja'Van Duley and 2-year-old Devean Duley and, God willing, she'll spend the rest of her life in prison.



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