Initial reports of this story about a Detroit mother were shocking, even more so the more so as investigators attempt to piece together every aspect of the reported incident. Mitchelle Blair, who is 36, killed her 9 - year - old son, Stephen, and 13 - year - old daughter, Stoni, only nine months apart. Both children were brutally tortured before their death. Mitchelle killed Stephen in August of 2012 by putting a trash bag over his head - she punched and kicked him repeatedly, pouring scalding hot water on his genital area, then strangling him with a black belt in the middle of their apartment home with her own hands. She then wrapped him up in his favorite comforter, stuffed him in a black plastic bag, then shoving him into their deep freezer. In May of the following year, thirteen year old Stoni was then killed by her mother in a similar fashion as her deceased brother, minus the strangulation. For certain acts like this to occur in an apartment home is not just horrific but it also raises the big question, “Why?”
Why would a mother do that to her own children? Why did she think that this was okay? Well, Blair does believe that her actions are justified, and as she stated in court, she “feels no remorse for those demons”.
Mitchelle Blair completely stands by her actions that she has committed because she felt as if she was protecting her youngest son, who remains to be unidentified. Blair defends the murders of her two children; in fact, in court, Blair repeatedly stated that Stephen and Stoni were not her children and that she only has two childen, who she mothers.
Blair’s reason as to why she committed these gruesome acts is because she believed that Stoni and Stephen brutally raped and tortured her youngest son. She claimed that Stoni and Stephen sodomized the youngest with various objects, urinated on him, and would make him drink “the blue stuff underneath the sink”. Even though Blair purposely killed Stoni, she says that she did not want to kill Stephen, but just hurt him.
Part of Mitchelle Blair’s defense as to why her children were murdered is because the fathers of the two were completely absent in their lives and were “deadbeats”, which is why they turned up as “demons”. If this so happened to be the case, then, why wasn't there any help for these children? In news interviews with the neighbors in Blair’s complex, many said that they did not want to get involved and be nosy.
The way things went underway, it could have been avoided, despite the fact the Blair believed that she was the perfect mother for protecting her youngest. If these things came about in the household, there were other solutions to the problem. Instead two children were killed and the two surviving children will suffer serious traumatic depression and probably Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), along with a myriad of other psychological responses to trauma, from the loss of their siblings and their mother, as well as the abuse they had to go through.
