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Experts confirmed Brittany was stabbed, but there was not enough evidence to prove who did it and if that was what killed her. That's why Jacks was acquitted on one of the premeditated first-degree murder charges. The other girls were strangled.
In a lengthy interview with police, she said her daughters were possessed by demons and inexplicably died one by one in their sleep. She believed they would be resurrected.
Six social workers were fired last year for not adequately responding to a report of abuse at the home months before the children were found.
Jacks faces life in prison when she is sentenced on October 16.
Before reading the verdict, Weisberg said the case was one of his most challenging in three decades as a judge.
Washington DC Superior Court Judge Frederick Weisberg decided the case himself after Jacks waived her right to a jury trial. Bench trials are rare in murder cases,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, said Benjamin Friedman, a spokesman for the US Attorney's Office in Washington.
US Marshal deputies discovered the girls' decomposing bodies in January 2008 while carrying out an eviction at their mother's southeast Washington row house. The girls are believed to have been ages 5 to 16.
Banita Jacks,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, 34,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, was convicted of four counts of felony murder,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, three counts of premeditated first-degree murder and four counts of first-degree child cruelty.
"It was a very lonely assignment," he said. At the end of the hearing, he buried his face in his hands.
Weisberg said the extreme decomposition of the bodies provided strong evidence of Jacks' guilt but also made it difficult for experts to determine how the girls died.
It was unclear why Jacks killed the girls,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, but evidence indicated she was extremely depressed.
A US judge has found a woman guilty of killing her four daughters and living with their mummified bodies for months in a case that has put Washington DC's child welfare system under scrutiny.
She was acquitted of one count of premeditated first-degree murder in the death of her oldest daughter.
Nathaniel Fogle, her boyfriend and father of the two youngest girls, died from cancer in February 2007. Following his death, Weisberg said Jacks lost her last emotional and financial support and became frustrated with her daughters' behaviour.
Woman guilty of killing four daughters