After a four week trial, it took a jury two days to find Lauren Dickason guilty of murdering her three young daughters. Dickason now faces a life sentence for each murder conviction. Her parents say "this was not our daughter" and believe a debilitating mental illness caused her to kill six year old Liane and two-year-old twins, Karla and Maya. The jury disagreed, and believed she knew what she was doing. So what drives a parent to commit such a terrible crime? Professor Thea Brown from Monash University's Filicide Research Hub, and one of the authors of the book, When Parents Kill Children [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default default/index.html?videoId=6333754042112
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Lauren Anne Dickason has been found guilty of murdering her three young children at their Timar