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Deanna killed two of their children in 2003 and disabled a third. She was acquitted in 2004, and last week was released from a state hospital.
Keith says he is left with a lot of questions about a local court's decision.
For nearly a decade, Keith Laney has been living with the question, "why."
A few years ago, he gave up on finding that answer. He says there's nothing that could ever explain how drastically his life changed Mother's Day weekend 2003. "Wouldn't want anyone to have to go through what I went through," Keith said. "It's very difficult--everyday. You don't get up and just forget it. It's on your mind everyday, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. It never leaves. You never forget it. You miss your boys everyday."Keith says he never thought his now ex-wife, Deanna, would be out so soon, considered not a harm to herself or others, after what she did. "The laws and stuff in the state of Texas are what they are. I would love to be able to change it and have a guilty by reason of insanity and her be confined." Keith said, "There's things that could be done without turning her out into society again with no record, nobody knowing."
Then 14-month-old Aaron survived his mother's attack. He's now 10 years old and suffers from permanent brain damage.
He's the joy of Keith's life, but Aaron's daily struggles are a reminder of the quality of life his mother took away. "I have a disability I have to live with the rest of my life. I have to change his diaper everyday." Keith said, 'I have to put braces on his feet, feed him, brush his teeth. It's not easy, and it never goes away. I don't have the opportunity to say well I've had seven years of it, I want it to disappear."
In the past nine years, the only form of communication he's had with Deanna was a letter exchange. "I've never had the opportunity, you know, when somebody looks at you after something like this, after this has happened in your life, and somebody looks at you and says, 'I can't really talk to you because my lawyer told me you were married to someone for 22 years and all of the sudden you can't tell me what happened,' what's going on."
Keith says he has no desire to see or talk to Deanna. For him, he did what he needed to move on... He forgave.
Laney knew she had to step out in faith.� She had to trust God, and she believed that God would use her brutal deed to do something great.� He had done such things in the Bible.� Then when Laney woke up before
Lifting the rock, she hit Aaron hard on the skull.� He began to cry, alerting her husband, Keith.� He asked what was wrong and Laney kept her back to him to prevent him from seeing what she was doing.� She assured Keith that everything was okay. � But it wasnt okay.� Aaron was still breathing, so she put a pillow over his face until she heard him gurgle.� She silently told God that He would have to finish the job.
Next Laney went after her other two sons.� �She took Luke, 6, outside first in his underwear and smashed his skull by hitting him repeatedly with a large rock.� Then she dragged him by the feet into the shadows so that Joshua, 8, would not see him.� She left the stone, the size of a dinner plate, lying on top of him.�
Ms. Laney, he said, claimed that God ordered her to kill her sons.
(Does Texas have it's own separate God?)
No one thought there was something wrong with thirty-nine-year-old Deanna Laney on Mothers Day weekend in 2003.� Thats why they could not have predicted what she was about to do.
A housewife in New Chapel Hill, Texas who saw herself as a religious sister to Andrea Yates, the housewife who drowned her five children in 2001, Laney began to see signs.� Her fourteen-month-old son, Aaron, was playing with a spear.� That was the first signal from God that she was to do something to her children.
She resisted, not certain that she understood.� But the signs continued.
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