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by Samantha Melamed Published Oct. 14, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET

The mother was in crisis, threatening to kill her young daughter and herself.

She told a Philadelphia Department of Human Services worker that her children did not deserve to be on this planet — then she lunged at her visitor, who had to flee the woman’s home. Police arrived to find the woman hallucinating, telling them she couldn’t see because her eyes were coming out of her head.

It was only the latest sign of danger. She had been involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital after choking one of her family members, and she had a history of punching and kicking her son, who went to live with hi

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