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March 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — A judge sentenced a South Carolina mother to 35 years in prison Friday for killing her two young sons, then putting them in her car and staging a crash into a river.
Shaquan Duley said nothing during the hearing except a very quiet “yes sir” as Circuit Court Judge Edgar Dickson asked her questions.
Dickson said he appreciated Duley taking responsibility but she needed to be punished for what she did.
“The sentence I hand down today does not reflect in any way this court minimizing the horror of what you did to your children, your family and this community,” Dickson said.
Duley faced 30 years to life in prison after pleading guilty earlier this month to two counts of murder in the deaths of her sons, 2-year-old Devean and 18-month-old Ja’van in August 2010. The 30-year-old mother made no deal with prosecutors.
After pleading guilty, Duley tearfully apologized for what she did. She also said she was happy that God let her keep her memories of her sons.
“In spite of whatever I’ve gone through,” Duley said. “I still have hope and joy in my heart that one day I will see them again.”
The case brought back heartrending reminders of Susan Smith, who rolled her car into a lake in Union County with her 3-year-old and 14-month-old sons in the back seat in Union in 1994.
But the cases differed in big ways. Prosecutors said Smith’s sons were alive when her car went into the lake, and she killed her boys because a man with whom she had an affair broke off their relationship.
Prosecutors said Duley suffocated her sons with her hands in a motel room before strapping them into their car seats and driving to the river 10 miles away. She killed them because she was depressed over failing online classes and not having a job. She also was upset the father of the boys didn’t have anything to do with them and just had a fight where her mother said she was a bad parent, investigators said.
Duley first told police she fell asleep before running off a bridge over the North Edisto River. But there were no skid marks or damage to the bridge. Instead, investigators think she drove to a boat ramp and got out of her car before letting it roll into the river.
Duley’s attorney said she intended to stay in the car and kill herself. She also tried to commit suicide a couple of other times by taking an overdose of headache medicine and trying to cut her wrist with a box cutter after killing her sons.
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