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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

OMG!!! She Stabbed her 3 children to death (must read+photos )


Days after stabbing her three children to death, Theresa Riggi turned to hospital chaplain Jacqueline Du Rocher and told her: ‘I’m not meant to be here. I’m meant to be with my babies.’
Shortly after that, a knife was discovered missing in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. It turned out Riggi had it. 
When she was confronted by staff, she repeated to them: ‘I just want to be with my babies.’


The Californian woman had certainly tried hard enough to make that possible. She had jumped head-first from the second floor of the Edinburgh flat where she and her children had been staying, only to have her fall broken by a neighbour.
She had at least four stab wounds, a collapsed lung, a fractured leg and elbow and cuts to her neck and wrist – and yet the job she had finished with such efficient brutality on her children minutes earlier, she could not finish on herself.
Yesterday, more than three years and many botched suicide attempts later, it seems Riggi’s wretched death wish has finally come true.
The 50-year-old was found dead at the high-security psychiatric Rampton Hospital in Nottinghamshire in what police were treating as 'unexplained but non-suspicious'.
She had been moved there from a Scottish prison while serving a 16-year sentence for repeatedly stabbing her eight-year-old twins, Austin and Gianluca, and five-year-old daughter Cecilia at the family's Edinburgh flat in 2010.

California-born Riggi had reportedly been maimed for life after a fellow inmate slashed her across the face at Cornton Vale prison in Stirling in November 2011.
On one occasion in Cornton Vale, Riggi is said to have set herself ablaze. On another, she tried to hang herself with a rope.


There had been no such difficulty when Riggi’s own case had been heard in the High Court in Edinburgh in March that year.
The evidence was overwhelming – and some of the most disturbing to be heard by a Scottish jury in years.
An increasingly unhinged Riggi had been locked in an argument with her estranged husband Pasquale about custody of her children, twins Austin and Luke, eight, and Cecilia, five, for many months.
Finally, she had badgered the children’s father, an oil industry engineer, into answering the question that meant most to her: did he plan to take them away from her?
When he responded that her behaviour had left him no choice, she said: ‘Say goodbye then’ and hung up. Mr Riggi never saw them alive again.
Heartbreakingly, the three children died of multiple stab wounds on August 4, 2010, only three minutes before social workers received a judge’s instructions to monitor them.
Their mother killed each of them in turn by stabbing them repeatedly in the chest, ending her attack at 3.02pm.
At 3.05pm, a fax arrived at Edinburgh’s social work department informing staff of a decision judge Lady Clark had made the previous day. She said the children should be supervised.

She and her husband had married in 1989, moving from Colorado to England in 1997.
The twins were born north of the Border after she had IVF treatment and, almost from the beginning of their lives, Riggi’s difficult personality came to the fore. She was highly possessive with the twins, accepting no help from health visitors.
She also insisted on sleeping in the same bed as the babies and banned her husband from sleeping there too, with the result that he was forced into another bedroom.
When the twins were old enough to sleep in a bedroom that the couple had turned into a nursery, Riggi slept in that room with them, effectively ending the physical side of her marriage.
Following the birth of their daughter and another unsuccessful attempt to have a further child by IVF, the relationship deteriorated further and Mr Riggi moved to Aberdeen and began to seek a divorce.
Before long, however, Riggi and the children had moved north too, moving into Mosslea Cottage, just outside Aberdeen, while her husband stayed in the city centre.
In court, Mr Prentice said the father continued to support his wife and children generously.
But, the following year, after he met another woman, Riggi began to make it increasingly difficult for  him to see the youngsters and finally he raised court proceedings for unsupervised access.
At a Court of Session hearing in Edinburgh, child psychologist  Dr Brenda Robson was appointed to report on the children’s care arrangements and welfare. She found they appeared to have been conditioned to fear their father. Every time they were sent to see their father, their mother had insisted that they carry mobile phones and personal alarms.
But background reports prepared during the divorce action said there should be contact with the father – and that they did not need the mobile phones or alarms. Nor were any problems foreseen if the youngsters were to live with him.


The children’s education remained a central bone of contention, however. While their father wanted them to attend school, their mother was a passionate believer in home schooling.
Riggi’s solution was to flee the country.
She told Andrew Bain, an acquaintance that she met on the internet, that she intended ‘to leave the country for good with the kids’.
Mr Riggi feared she had done just that when, in the month leading up to the tragedy, his wife and the children were the subject of a Grampian Police missing persons inquiry. The four had vanished from their home in Skene, near Westhill, Aberdeenshire.
The youngsters’ father had reported them missing on July 11, a week after they were thought to have left the area, and two days later a judge made an order  preventing the children being removed from the country and demanding the handover of their passports.
Ports and airports were alerted to be on the lookout. When they were eventually traced to the property in Edinburgh – rented by Mr Bain – on July 21, 2010, Riggi insisted her whereabouts were not to be disclosed.
Messengers-at-Arms later arrived with a warrant to seize the children’s passports and told Riggi of the next date at the Court of Session.
It was on August 2, the eve of the scheduled court hearing, that Riggi had a telephone conversation with her husband and told him: ‘Say goodbye then.’
She was not present in court the following day. It was as a result of her absence that Mr Riggi’s defence counsel David Jack told Lady Clarke ‘there is a real emergency in this matter’. She immediately ordered social workers to supervise the children.
Tragically, the order came too late. The horrific truth was that Riggi would prefer all three of her children to be dead than in the care of her husband.
Speaking a week after their deaths, a distraught Mr Riggi revealed he had last seen his children alive on July 4 when he had celebrated Independence Day with them. Exactly a month later, all three were dead.
He said: ‘The hardest moment without a doubt was when I first found out. Your life is all about your children, you have plans and you have dreams for them.
‘In one instant, that’s gone.’
He said he was ‘paralysed with grief’ when police told him of the tragedy. His youngest had begun handing out invitations to her sixth birthday party on August 9 almost two months earlier.
But instead of watching her celebrate, her father could mark the day only by watching recent footage of Cecilia taking part in a dance show.
They bought a Disney cake too – a nod to the Disney princess themed party Cecilia thought she was going to have.
Mr Riggi said: ‘It is bad enough that you have lost three beautiful children, but certainly the tragedy around their deaths makes it much more painful.
‘The reality of it all is difficult to take all at once. You can’t even get your head around it.
‘The difficult part, obviously, is seeing constant reminders on a daily basis in front of you – it’s playing out in the newspapers and on TV.
‘It’s almost like it’s happening to someone else and you keep asking yourself, “Is it me, is this my family?”.
‘And then the reality hits you that it is.’

Jailing Riggi for 16 years, judge Lord Bracadale told her that, whatever her mental state, the level of violence she had shown in killing her children was simply ‘inexplicable’.
He added: ‘Pasquale Riggi and the wider family have been left utterly bereft by the loss of the children – and you, who had a genuine but abnormal and possessive love of your children, have lost them and are brought to this sorry pass.
‘You, and others, must understand that, while your responsibility is diminished, you are still responsible for your actions.’
The judge concluded: ‘The number and nature of the stab wounds to each child is indicative of a truly disturbing degree of  violence which must have been sustained over a significant period of time. It is clear that any degree of responsibility for such ghastly and grotesque acts must be  visited with a lengthy sentence of imprisonment.’
In the event, Riggi served less than three years of her sentence. There can be little doubt that in her own disturbed mind, the final victory in her custody battle lay in the afterlife where she expected to be reunited with her young ones.



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