41.   But he was the first journalist on the scene when a gunman shot at a van carrying Hasidic schoolchildren, killing one child and injuring three others.

42.   But he noted that she had initially told the police that she had killed the children because she was a bad mother and the children were developing improperly.

43.   But defense lawyers and a local law professor could not recall a Harris County prosecutor ever seeking death for a mother who had killed her children.

44.   But no one kills their children.

45.   But prosecutors maintained that the two teen-agers, who were students at the University of Delaware, conspired to kill the child.

46.   But the undoubted reality is that the snipers have stopped killing children, the guns stopped destroying churches and homes.

47.   But the visit reminded Valentine that someone who killed a child is still free.

48.   But the changes have not been enough, said Michelle Oberman, a law professor at DePaul University, who studies mothers who kill their children.

49.   But they may also have killed eight children, the agency says.

50.   Children are being killed by bullets.