Babysitter 'raised no fears'
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November 4, 2012, Sunday
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PROSECUTORS say the mother of a five-year-old girl stabbed to death this week would have had no hint that something might be wrong when she left her daughter with the Polish-born babysitter now accused of killing the girl and the woman's own seven-year-old son.
Elzbieta Plackowska had watched the suburban Chicago kindergartner fairly regularly since the beginning of the school year, State's Attorney Robert Berlin said. As far as prosecutors know, Plackowska has no history of mental illness or hospitalizations.
And the investigation has turned up nothing that might have given the girl's mother pause about letting her continue babysitting, he said.
"There was really no indication," Berlin said. "Nothing."
Investigators continued Friday to interview people close to Plackowska and to comb the car she was driving Tuesday night for evidence. Berlin has said that a bloody knife - one of two believed to have been used in the killings - was found inside the vehicle. On Friday, a judge signed an order giving prosecutors possession of the car once police are finished with it.
Plackowska, a 40-year-old Polish immigrant, came to the United States 12 years ago on a tourist visa, Berlin said. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Friday it had placed a hold on her because she could be eligible for deportation. Plackowska is being held without bail. She has been charged with first-degree murder in the children's deaths. Authorities say she stabbed them dozens of times as they begged for their lives.
Berlin said previously that Plackowska told investigators she killed her son because she was upset with her husband and the girl as she was a witness.
On Friday, he said Plackowska said she had been upset about her own father's recent death, but he couldn't say what role this may have played.
Elzbieta Plackowska had watched the suburban Chicago kindergartner fairly regularly since the beginning of the school year, State's Attorney Robert Berlin said. As far as prosecutors know, Plackowska has no history of mental illness or hospitalizations.
And the investigation has turned up nothing that might have given the girl's mother pause about letting her continue babysitting, he said.
"There was really no indication," Berlin said. "Nothing."
Investigators continued Friday to interview people close to Plackowska and to comb the car she was driving Tuesday night for evidence. Berlin has said that a bloody knife - one of two believed to have been used in the killings - was found inside the vehicle. On Friday, a judge signed an order giving prosecutors possession of the car once police are finished with it.
Plackowska, a 40-year-old Polish immigrant, came to the United States 12 years ago on a tourist visa, Berlin said. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Friday it had placed a hold on her because she could be eligible for deportation. Plackowska is being held without bail. She has been charged with first-degree murder in the children's deaths. Authorities say she stabbed them dozens of times as they begged for their lives.
Berlin said previously that Plackowska told investigators she killed her son because she was upset with her husband and the girl as she was a witness.
On Friday, he said Plackowska said she had been upset about her own father's recent death, but he couldn't say what role this may have played.
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