Illinois 7-year-old stabbed 100 times and police say mother did it : News : UpNorthLive.com

Elzbieta Plackowska, 40, of Naperville, Ill., who was charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of her 7-year-old son and a 5-year-old girl. / AP photo

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