Mother jailed for 20 years for drowning three children in Australian lake

Guode wept and wailed throughout her sentencing hearing as the judge outlined her crimes and her troubled life that led to it.

A woman who drowned three of her children and attempted to kill a fourth by driving the family car into an Australian lake has been sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison.

Akon Guode, 37, drove an SUV carrying four of her seven children into the lake in Melbourne in April 2015. Her five-year-old daughter Alual survived after passers-by pulled her from the partially submerged car.