Colorado : An American woman accused of killing her two children claimed God forced her to do so

Colorado : The mother, an American, said that God had commanded her to murder her two children in Colorado in December.

Kimberlee Singler has denied assaulting her children while battling extradition to the US in a London court. Joel Smith, the prosecutor, said that Singler informed her daughter, who is eleven years old, that she was directed by God to carry out the act.

The girl begged for her life, but Singler is said to have stabbed her once again in spite of her pleas for forgiveness.

Edward Fitzgerald, Singler’s defense counsel, is appealing against her extradition to the United States on the grounds that a conviction for first-degree murder in Colorado would carry a life sentence without the possibility of parole, a violation of European human rights legislation. Fitzgerald expressed worries that the 11-year-old could have been forced into giving the police statement.

Further information regarding the case was disclosed during the hearing, which was mainly concerned with the legal questions related to extradition. Singler was fighting with her ex-husband, Kevin Wentz, for custody at the time of the deaths, and she had neglected to give him the children as the judge had directed. Aden Wentz, 7, and Elianna “Ellie” Wentz, 9, the two youngest children, were discovered dead from gunshot and stabbing wounds in their residence.

At first, Singler said that a “dark figure” had broken into her apartment and assaulted the kids, but her daughter, who survived, subsequently confessed to a caregiver that Singler was the one behind it all and had urged her to tell lies to the police. The girl said that Singler fed the kids milk mixed with a powdered medication and claimed to be acting on God’s instructions since their father was about to take them away. An empty sleeping pill bottle was also located in the residence, and DNA testing on the weapons revealed a blood composition that matched the children and their mother.

The hearing was postponed until December 2 to give attorneys time to clarify and provide additional arguments in response to a news report that former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper had commuted sentences for first-degree murder.