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# Murderer of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/murderer-of-the-day-2/
- Published: 2024-06-26T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-06-26T06:09:57.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-20 04:39

> Lauren Dickason has apologised to her family for failing them after being sentenced to 18 years in mental health care for the murder of her three children.  
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> In a statement released through her lawyers after her sentencing at the High Court in Christchurch on Wednesday, Dickason said: “I loved Liané, Maya and Karla with all my heart. I failed them, I failed Graham, and I failed our families.  
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> “I take responsibility for taking our three beautiful girls from this world.  
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> “I would like to take this opportunity to convey the deepest and most sincere remorse for the extreme pain and hurt caused to my children and my family by my actions.”  
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> The South African doctor, 43, was sentenced after being [found guilty by a jury of murdering her twin daughters](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/132756319/lauren-dickason-found-guilty-of-murdering-her-three-daughters?ref=goodoil.news), Maya and Karla, 2, and their older sister Liané, 6, on the night of September 16, 2021 in Timaru.  
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> In August last year a jury found her guilty of murder after rejecting her defences of insanity and infanticide.  
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> She will start her sentence in mental health care, and could possibly move to prison later. She escaped a life sentence, and will be eligible for parole after six years.  
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