Mentally Sick Welsh Woman Cuts Neck Of 2 Children After Watching CSI

A forensic psychiatrist attributed the attack by 28-year-old Sadie Jenkins on her two children with a steak knife to drug-induced psychosis. Because of her mental ailment, Jenkins cut the neck of her baby daughter and 7-year-old son in May 2014.

Her psychosis was triggered by watching an episode of popular crime TV series CSI which had a man covered in teardrop tattoos. The episode made her fear that a Mafia hit man with the same body art would kill her children, said Dr Philip Joseph, reports the New York Daily News.

Jenkins, from Newport, believed she had to do something, which was a manifestation of her psychotic ailment and her being out of touch with reality. Her reaction was to get a steak knife and slash the throat of her two kid.

Her screaming children attracted a female neighbour who saw Jenkins holding the knife above her bloodied infant daughter, while her son held a blanket to his injured neck. The woman fought with Jenkins for control over the knife which Jenkins attempted to use on herself.

Joseph told the Welsh court that Jenkins allegedly heard voices and thought there was a conspiracy against her. These are classic symptoms of someone addicted to amphetamines, the psychiatrist explained. “I was the weak link and they did not want me around,” Mirror quotes Jenkins’s court testimony.

She even thought that a passing helicopter was part of a conspiracy. After the chopper passed their area, Jenkins was convinced she had to slash the throats of her two kids, Joseph said.

The children were transported immediately to the Royal Gwent Hospital. They had surgery for their life-threatening injuries. Jenkins, on Tuesday, filed a not guilty plea with the Cardiff Crown Court to two charges of attempted murder.

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