Alysha Green Douses Three Daughters with Gasoline and Sets Them on Fire
As a mother I can’t imagine the horror of purposely trying to kill your child. Yet in Texas, there seem to be many mothers who have done just that, from Andrea Yates (drowning) to Gilberta Estrada (who hung herself and her four children).
The latest case involves Alysha Green, 29, who coaxed her three daughters into a closet, poured gasoline over her them, and set them on fire. She faces a capital murder charge in the death of three-year-old daughter, Ariania Green, who had burns over 90 percent of her body and had been taken off of life support.
Alysha is also charged with two counts of serious injury to a child in the case of her other daughters who remain hospitalized. Alexandria, 5, has burns covering about 40 percent of her body, and Adamiria, 7, has burns covering nearly 20 percent of her body. Their mother is also hospitalized with burnt feet.
Adamiria told an emergency worker that their mom asked them to play a game, and had them get into a closet. Alysha then opened the closet door and threw a burning shirt on the children. The girls and their mother then ran screaming from the burning house. Neighbors rushed in to help and said Adamiria was screaming, ”Why mommy? Why did you do this to me?”
Green has bipolar disorder and stopped taking her medication. Her husband Adam Green told police that his wife’s behavior had worsened and that she previously threatened to set him on fire. Alysha told an officer that she burned her children because she was mad at her husband.
I’m sure he never imagined that his wife’s mental illness was bad enough that she’d try to kill her daughters. (Neither did her sister.) Still, why did he leave the kids alone with her if she wasn’t taking her meds? Sounds like another Andrea Yates case to me. Like that case, I’m sure the media will be all over this one as well.
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May 20th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Isn’t there a difference, though, between a mother that kills her children thinking she is sending them to a better place, and one that kills her children because she is mad at her husband? Those are very different “motives.”