Brittany Pilkington, 23, killed her three boys over a 13-month period in an attempt to make her husband show their daughter more attention
A young mum who confessed to killing her three sons because her husband 'ignored their daughter' is facing the death penalty after being indicted over their murders.
Brittany Pilkington admitted to killing her four-year-old boy and two three-month-old sons over a 13-month period.
The 23-year-old allegedly murdered the boys in an attempt to make her husband show their three-year-old daughter more attention.
Pilkington, from Bellefontaine, Ohio, has now been charged with three counts of murder - charges which carry the death penalty.
However she is unlikely to be executed as she had an abusive childhood and suffered through a controlling relationship with her husband, who previously dated her mother, the New York Daily News reported.
Logan County Prosecutor William Goslee said: "To imagine a jury that would say that this is a person with a depraved heart that should die at the hands of some chemistry (through lethal injection), I don't think that's likely."
Pilkington is accused of killing three-month-old Noah last week, four-year-old Gavin in April and three-month-old Niall, who died in July 2014.
Goslee said Pilkington admitted she killed the boys during an interview by putting a blanket over their heads and suffocating.
"In her mind, she was protecting her daughter from being not as loved as the boys were by their father," Mr Goslee said.
Police chief Brandon Standley said: "The tragic deaths of Niall, Gavin and Noah leave a pit in our stomachs."
The children's father, 38-year-old Joseph Pilkington, who works away from home at a Honda plant in Marysville, knew about his two eldest sons deaths after previously finding both their bodies.
Police and the local coroner's office were investigating how Gavin and Niall died.
While the enquiry continued Noah had been removed from the family by Children Services shortly after his birth, along with his sister Hailey as a precaution.
But a judge sent them back home last week after a coroner recently determined that neither of the boys died of suspicious causes and the causes of their deaths couldn't be determined.
Mr Pilkington's brother, Jim said: "There was no proof of foul play.
"I just feel real bad for my brother.
"It's messed up."
However the mother's own uncle Joe Skaggs, questioned returning Hailey and Noah to the family.
"Why would you give them back after a little boy just died and when you’re in the middle of an investigation?" he said.
Source: MirrorOnline
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