Woman Poisons Her Children With Toilet Cleaner To Draw Them Closer To Jesus

West told them then she and the children stood in
the front yard naked before getting dressed again
and going to a neighbors home to ask if the
neighbor knew Jesus
A woman in Florida was said to have forced her
two young children to drink toilet bowl cleaner and
reportedly downed some of the chemical herself in
what the police are calling an attempted murder-
suicide.
29-year-old Amelia West admitted to the police
that she fed her kids toilet bowl cleaner to drink
and is now facing attempted murder and child
abuse charges.
Police say they found the woman and her two
children -- ages 2 months and 2 years old -- at
her Port Orange home after responding to a report
of suicide attempt.
WESH reports » that prior to giving her children
the chemicals, West told police she brought her
and her children into a bedroom and had them all
get undressed and lay naked together on the floor.
Police said West told them then she and the
children stood in the front yard naked before
getting dressed again and going to a neighbors
home to ask if the neighbor knew Jesus.
The kids were treated at a local hospital and later
released into the custody of a relative.
"Thankfully the children are okay. This could have
been much worse," Department of Children and
Families spokesperson John Harrell told WFTV.
West told police that she'd tried to harm herself
before when she lived in Tennessee, and that she
was depressed after her recent move to Florida.
West was booked into the Volusia County Branch
Jail, charged with two counts of attempted murder
and two counts of aggravated child abuse.