The husband of a Georgia woman that authorities say fatally stabbed three of their youngest seven children before setting their home on fire is asking for forgiveness for his wife.
Pauling County Sheriff’s Department reports it received a 911 call about the house fire and domestic disturbance on Friday night. The caller told dispatchers that a woman was inside Darlene and Ricky Brister’s residence trying to stab other occupants.
When first responders arrived, they found the couple’s 3-year-old with multiple stab wounds and 8-month-old dead with stab wounds. They rescued seven children from the fire. A 5-year-old who’d been stabbed later died at the hospital.
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Ricky Brister said his wife was dealing with mental health problems at the time.
“She was hurt … she was. .. she lost it,” Brister said, who was reportedly on his way home from another state when the tragedy occurred.
“I know it was a mental health situation,” he said. “We were trying to get help.”
A neighbor wrote on a fundraising website that some of the children, who are as old as 16 jumped out of the windows on the house’s second floor. One of the two children, 9 and 11 years old, currently hospitalized, has sustained a leg injury, and the other is in critical condition and is suffering from burn injuries.
The family has lost all their belongings and home in the fire and is asking for donations. Still, Ricky said he has “no hate toward” his wife of 17 years, who he said was battling depression.
“I’m definitely, definitely hurt by what she did, but I still have to move forward,” he said.
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