A defense attorney for the Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her two young children before fleeing to Vermont stunningly requested that his client be freed and the case be dismissed on Thursday.
Janette MacAusland’s lawyer, Joseph Krowski, argued to a judge that there wasn’t enough information to keep the 49-year-old Wellesley mom behind bars – despite her allegedly admitting to cops that she killed 7-year-old Kai and 6-year-old Ella and tried to take her own life back in April, according to court records and WCVB.
“I strangled them and then I tried to kill myself,” MacAusland told a Vermont cop at her aunt’s Bennington home, where she showed up out of the blue with bloody wounds across her neck late one night in April, according to a police report.
“I wanted the three of us to go to God together but it didn’t work,” she allegedly told the officer…