 Genevieve Lhermitte is a Belgian woman who killed her five children on February 28 , 2007 . She killed each of her children by slitting their throats with a kitchen knife stolen from a local grocery store while her husband was visiting family in Morocco . After Lhermitte killed her children , she then tried to kill herself . The suicide attempt failed , and Lhermitte was taken into custody and charged with first @-@ degree murder . She was subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment . 
