The reality of raising three children under five was a complication for someone like Lauren, according to the Crown. Lauren reported feeling like a "shaken bottle of coke, ready to explode" on the day she killed her children. Photo: Stuff / Pool / Alden WilliamsBy September 2021, Lauren felt what she later told a forensic psychiatrist was a demonic presence. "Mothers don't kill their children the way that Lauren did just because they're angry, or resentful, or stressed or anxious. When asked if she had anything to say as to why she should not be sentenced, Dickason did not respond.
