Prosecutor: Mom Accused Of Drowning 2 Sons Tried To Kill Before

PITTSBURGH (AP) – A prosecutor says a Pennsylvania woman accused of drowning her two young sons in a bathtub had tried to kill the boys before.
An Allegheny County prosecutor made that claim in opening statements of the bench trial of Laurel Schlemmer. The 43-year-old McCandless woman is charged with killing 6-year-old Daniel and 3-year-old Luke in April 2014 so she could focus on raising their older brother.
Schlemmer’s attorney didn’t make an opening statement. But in a pretr