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Suicidal mother arrested for trying to kill pre-school son

Monday, 12 May 2008

KARATSU, Saga -- A woman who tried to kill herself and her 5-year-old son by inhaling toxic hydrogen sulfide has been arrested after the murder-suicide attempt failed, police said.

Harue Baba, 29, a restaurant worker of unknown address, was arrested for the attempted murder of her son.

Baba admits to the allegations, saying that the man she had been seeing following her husband's death had left her.

"I wanted to kill myself and my boy, but I couldn't go through with it when he started crying," she told the police.

Police said Baba decided to kill herself on Tuesday last week and took her son with her into a closet in her mother's apartment in Karatsu with the intention of inhaling lethal quantities of toxic hydrogen sulfide and killing them both.

When the gas started pouring out, Baba took her son and raced out of the closet, then called the police herself. Both were rushed to a hospital and escaped with only minor injuries. Police waited until Baba was discharged from the hospital on Sunday before they arrested her.

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