Woman Charged With Killing 3 Young Girls in New Zealand

Woman Charged With Killing 3 Young Girls in New Zealand
Police search the driveway of a house where three children were found dead in the South Island town of Timaru in New Zealand on Sept. 17, 2021. George Heard/New Zealand Herald via AP
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand—A 40-year-old woman was charged Friday with killing three young girls in a crime that has shocked New Zealand.

Police did not immediately identify the woman but the Stuff news agency said she was the girls’ mother, Lauren Dickason, a doctor who had just moved to New Zealand from South Africa along with her daughters and husband Graham Dickason, an orthopedic surgeon.