The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is the Hand Rules the World is the poem which praises motherhood as the preeminent force for change in the world, future development of the world. Really??..May not true for all mothers One Indian origin mother convicted of killing daughters …no not in developing country like in India..this was executed in so called developed UK. Some day ago I read in a blog one mother ‘killed’ her son giving him wrong medicine. But that was not intentional..it was foolish act.
But Rekha Kumari Baker stabbed her daughters to death at her home in Cambridgeshire. As usual she blamed her ex-husband and break-up relationship with her boyfriend. But stabbing a 16 yr old girl as many as 39 times is the cruelest thing I have ever heard. Even the killer in movie ‘scream’ was not so unkind.
However the Court took just half an hour to reach a verdict of guilty on both counts of murder. Sources said she is going to be face life sentence.

Rekha Kumari-Baker, 41, admitted the killings but had denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility. Davina Baker, 16, and Jasmine Baker, 13, were killed with a kitchen knife in a frenzied attack in 2007. There were wounds on the girl’s body which showed she had tried to defend herself. Kumari-Baker, a hotel worker, then attacked her younger daughter in similar fashion.
Psychiatrist Lyle Hamilton, who was called to give evidence by Kumari-Baker’s lawyers, said medical literature showed that women had killed children because they were “mentally ill” and because they were a “retaliatory type”.

He said Kumari-Baker displayed a combination of both categories.

But Dr Neil Hunt, a consultant psychiatrist, told jurors he did not think there was evidence of any mental illness, despite Kumari-Baker’s “extreme and unusual behaviour”.

After the verdicts, Detective Inspector Jim McCrorie said: “It became clear, as this investigation progressed, that Rekha Kumari-Baker set out to murder her children.

“Only she will know the reasons why she carried out such a vicious and deliberate attack as they lay sleeping in their beds. Davina and Jasmine were two innocent young teenagers who were killed by the person they should have been able to trust most in this world.

“In 25 years in the police service I have never before investigated such an upsetting or sickening crime.”

After the hearing, businessman Mr Baker said “not a day passes” when he did not think of Davina and Jasmine.

“I was robbed of my daughters by an act of calculated viciousness by a woman who, having given life to them, in her vindictive mind believed she also had a right to take that life from them. She will now pay the price for this.”