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To: Snowshoe who wrote (60901)3/12/2005 4:54:03 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74559
 
<The boys' mother, Shirley Wiltsey, said she found the boys chewing oleander leaves a few days before they died and noticed they had picked some again the night of their deaths.

Shirley and her husband Tom Wiltsey adopted the boys in August from an orphanage in Siberia. Authorities had speculated that the deaths were related to an rare mental disorder caused by the boys' having been born in hunger and poverty
>

They weren't exactly normal children.

I'm sure there are exceptions, but generally, children don't poison themselves with plants. They won't even eat their vegetables, let alone bitter, toxic plants.

Mqurice