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Mom who killed her four daughters claims they were ‘possessed by demons’. Right, and I’m Lutheran*.

As U.S. marshals armed with eviction papers began to clear out her town house, Banita Jacks sat on the steps leading to the upstairs bedrooms, intending to block their path, authorities said.

One managed to sidestep the 33-year-old woman and spotted the bodies of three children on the floor of an unfinished bedroom, prosecutors said Thursday. He then opened the door to another bedroom and found the body of a teenager on the floor of the bare room.

Authorities estimate the four girls - ages five to 17 - had been dead for at least two weeks. Jacks told police they were “possessed by demons” and had died in their sleep, one by one, within a week of each other, court documents say.

Jacks was charged Thursday with four counts of first-degree murder. She said nothing during a hearing in Superior Court, where Magistrate Judge Karen Howze ordered her held without bond. Her lawyers had argued that she should be released to the custody of an adult relative pending trial.

Jacks could receive a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted.

The charging documents identify the children as Brittany Jacks, 17; Tatianna Jacks, 11; , six; and Aja Fogle, five.

Okay, seriously…the woman obviously has some severe problems, and I for one hope she gets the treatment she evidently needs, desperately. But I will draw the reader’s attention to two details that I note: the absence of a father figure anywhere in the picture, and the different last names on her two older, versus her two younger, children. In a sense, there’s more to the problem here than just a baby mama losing it and snapping.