Bathtub Girls,” who drowned their mother and almost got away with murder, has revealed her tragic history and the disturbing motivation behind the crime in an exclusive interview with Global News.With their convictions for first-degree murder, the now 34-year-old woman, “Sandra,” and her sister, “Beth,” are believed to be the first sisters convicted of matricide, the killing of their own mother, in Canada.
They were sentenced as young offenders in June 2006.Global News is using pseudonyms because they cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.Sandra tells Global News about a horrific childhood of physical and sexual abuse, and a painfully sad life in the home of her alcoholic mother.