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Dickason ‘sick’ of being bad parent

KILLER MOM

Lauren Anne Dickason was getting just two hours of sleep and had increasing feelings that she was a bad parent in the weeks leading up to her smothering her three children.

Dickason, 42, originally from Pretoria, was also sick of forcing her children to eat their vegetables and was

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