Texas mom shoots daughter, 4, in murder-suicide hours after losing custody battle trib.al/w9wWrfJ
Oct 2, 2026 · 1:08 PM UTC
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I pulled the entire court record. She was not some dangerous, abusive mother. The case against her was essentially that she disparaged the father, allegedly interfered with his relationship with their child, and, as a Brazilian immigrant mother, could supposedly flee.
Meanwhile, he was a partner at a prestigious Houston law firm. He knew exactly how catastrophic those allegations could become once fed into the family court machine, and he kept feeding them into it until the mother of his child was stripped of virtually all her maternal rights.
So spare me the posthumous rewrite where he becomes some innocent man “following the court system”, blindsided by an inexplicable tragedy. He had vastly more power, money, institutional fluency, and credibility than she did, and he used every ounce of it against her. Fuck him.
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The details of this story are genuinely horrifying.
She lost the custody battle, took the girl home, and then executed her.
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Someone needs to examine the motions and filings submitted by opposing counsel. Family law is ruthless, and lawyers stretch the truth and spin stories. Seeing accusations on paper and in court likely caused this woman great stress, and she viewed the situation as if her daughter were being taken away for life. Months of legal theater in the filings probably drove her to do the unthinkable.
Look at the lawyers and the documents that were filed. I fear she was pushed over the edge by legal theater.
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TEXAS MOM KILLS 4-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER AFTER LOSING CUSTODY
Eight hours earlier, a Houston judge gave Vivian's father, Aaron Savella, primary custody. The ruling barred her mother, Cibelle Savella, 35, from school events and from speaking to Vivian in her native Portuguese unless a supervisor understood it. Vivian was supposed to go home to her father that night. Her family says he did everything the law asks of a parent and trusted the courts.
A father followed every rule to protect his little girl, and she still never came home. Rest in peace, Vivian.
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A man’s love is stronger than his hate.
A woman’s hate is stronger than her love.
Meaning
A man will tolerate or preserve what he dislikes if doing so will benefits the person he loves.
A woman will hurt or sacrifice something that she loves if doing so will harm something or someone she hates.
I say what I know.
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The court had ruled she couldn't even be ALONE with that child!!!
The girl went home with her anyway and the mother k*lled her.
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I’ve been in the court system for 3 years. The stories I wish I could tell you. The only time a woman knows what a father goes through in the court system is when she starts dating a man who already has kids the family court system is bias and is designed to extract money from the father. Fathers have to purchase the right to be a father.
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The Lindsay Clancy effect.
🚨#BREAKING: Two TODDLERS have STARVED TO DE*TH in South Carolina, the MOTHER has been arrested for "not giving them food or water"...
She was allegedly suffering from "postpartum depression" and was discussing Lindsay Clancy.
The FATHER was ARRESTED for "harassment" for attempting to SEE his daughters.
Yes, you read that right.
Their mother, 31-year-old Justine Marie May, is charged with two counts of homicide by child abuse.
According to the affidavit, she told detectives she'd been in a "blur" for two weeks and couldn't remember the last time she gave her daughters food or water.
Emory was 2 and a half. Harlow was the baby.
May was a preschool teacher.
Teacher of the Month, 2019 with a room full of 2-year-olds.
Then, this summer, her family says "something broke in her"
Her family says she was "normal for over 30 years." In late July she left the girls' father.
By mid-August she'd cut off her mother.
By August 23rd, the dad.
He never saw his daughters again.
The grandmother banged on the door.
May's response: "Showing up banging at my door is not okay."
She complained police had been to the house "way too many times." She said police were "on my side."
On September 4th, the grandmother sent a long email, according to the family.
She named a "countdown on the wall in crayon." She wrote that she was afraid this "could lead to you harming the girls and/or yourself."
She begged to take the children.
May's answer: "Don't question my motherhood again."
September 11th, police came out again.
May texted her mom: "Good try with the police."
Then blocked her.
That SAME DAY, the girls' father was arrested. Second-degree harassment.
May asked for a no-contact order and a judge GAVE her one.
The man trying to see his kids got HANDCUFFS.
The woman with a countdown on the wall got a court order PROTECTING her.
September 13th, the grandmother on the dad's side posted publicly: "I'm begging you to get help, before you harm your babies."
May's own brother: "We need to get Justine help... I beg of you!!!"
September 14th, a welfare check.
Police told the dad the kids were okay.
Fifteen days later they were de*d.
...AND IT GETS WORSE.
The family says DSS had an open case for about a MONTH.
The family says they were warned they could be ARRESTED FOR HARASSMENT if they kept requesting welfare checks.
The electricity was shut off.
A bank notice was on the door.
The trash was overflowing.
The sheriff's own affidavit admits deputies had been to that house on prior welfare checks. They knew exactly who lived there. They knew two toddlers were inside.
Monday, the grandmother emailed the chief of police. One more plea.
Tuesday, 1:13 p.m., officers pulled up to Pinewood Drive.
1:30 p.m., the chief emailed her back.
By then deputies were already inside.
Sadly, Emory and Harlow were "beyond the point at which lifesaving measures could be performed."
They are no longer living.
The affidavit says investigators allege May's failure to provide "adequate food and fluids" contributed to both de*ths, and May herself told them she believed they passed away because they hadn't eaten.
WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!
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Father wins custody. Hours later, his 4-year-old daughter is dead.
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