GAIL De Jonge, a Patient Care Assistant at the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC), allegedly attempted to kill her children with insulin early on Friday morning, but later confided in another colleague when she could not obtain the poison she had wanted to purchase to commit suicide.Multiple sources have confirmed that De Jonge is in custody at a police station in Linden. Sources surmise that a court ruling stipulating that De Jonge must allow one of her children to be with his father at weekends was the catalyst that triggered the woman’s intended action.

The sources say that after De Jonge had injected the children with insulin and did not obtain the poison to commit suicide, she went to the hospital and told a Sister what had happened, and that Sister rescued the children from their home, which is near the LHC, and took them to the hospital, where they were revived.