Vermont Mother Drowns Self, Two Young Children in Stream:
Reason to Blow Up the World...
WARDSBORO, Vt. — A woman reported missing with her two daughters waded into a brook carrying one of them and eluded a rescue attempt before mother and child were swept downstream to their deaths, police said Sunday. The second child's body was found later.
Searchers found the bodies of Nicole Waring and her 6-year-old daughter downstream in Wardsboro Brook on Saturday. They found the body of her 2 1/2-year-old daughter downstream Sunday.
"For whatever reason, it was a deliberate action," said Vermont State Police Capt. David Covell, who stopped short of calling the river plunge a suicide.
Waring, 40, was reported missing early Saturday after she disappeared from her parents' Wardsboro house with the two girls, the state police said.
As troopers began preparing a search party, State Police Sgt. Robert McCarthy spotted Waring and a child standing on the edge of the brook, about 100 yards from the parents' home, Covell said.
McCarthy tried to talk to Waring, but she ignored him and walked into the water holding the child, police said.
She was standing near a rock in turbulent, waist-deep water when McCarthy reached for her, but she pushed away from the rock and eluded his grasp, plunging into the brook with daughter Dakota in her arms before being swept away, Covell said.
"The sergeant tried to communicate with her. She didn't respond at all. He was in close enough proximity that she should've recognized his presence," Covell said.
Preliminary autopsy findings on Waring and the 6-year-old suggested they drowned, Covell said.
The only thing I'm going to say about this one is the 'usual'. If you're going to off yourself go alone and don't drag your kids into it. Four points because I said so.
