Warning: This story deals with disturbing subject matter, including suicide, that may upset and trigger some readers. Discretion is advised.

Vanessa Collias’ sobbed in a Toronto courtroom Monday as she read a lengthy statement about why she killed her two young sons almost two years ago.

“I want to start off by apologizing to everyone my actions hurt and to the people I have let down,” said Collias through tears, appearing via video from the South West Detention Centre in Windsor.

Court heard the 27-year-old was left a paraplegic as a result of a failed suicide attempt on the night she murdered her sons, five-year-old Yiannis Collias and four-year-old Dimitri Collias.

“A part of me wonders why I never said I needed help. I stand in front of you a broken person. I wonder if I’m damaged

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