Re: Mom stabs kids to death; warning signs recognized too late - antidepressant

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It is frightening to consider how many people will be forced to stop

SSRIs as they lose their jobs and insurance.

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> http://www.wrdw.com/crimeteam12/headlines/37302309.html

> News 12 First at Five, January 8, 2009

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> AUGUSTA, Ga.---We're learning more about the medical history of

Jeanette Hawes and the events that led her to the courtroom, accused

of stabbing her children to death last year. As the case unfolded in

court, warning signs were revealed.

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> Jeanette Hawes had been prescribed 6 months of an antidepressant.

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> " She had got a brand new job at the post office, she had brought a

brand new car, " said Jeanette's aunt, Hawes. " She was just

doing good. "

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> But on October 31, 2007 she lost that job. She stopped taking her

medicine, and less than a month later she would go on a psychotic rampage.

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> " If I only knew, " said Hawes.

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> Tuesday, November 27, Jeanette Hawes drove to Atlanta in that new

car, and returned Wednesday on the bus. Officers had to force her to

get off.

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> " We hadn't seen or heard from her all that Wednesday night, " said

Hawes.

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> Thursday turned out to be a day that her family will never forget.

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> " If I only knew I would have got them kids, " said . " But I

didn't know. "

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> is a bus driver. She was the last person to see the children

alive the day they died. She remembers them walking along the road.

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> " They was just looking at me when I was sitting on that bus, " said

. " If I could have got them I would have rode them all through

my whole route. "

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> Their walk ended at a local convenience store. It would become the

scene of a horrific crime.

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> " My heart fell, Jesus, " said . " My heart fell to my stomach. I

just couldn't believe it. "

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