A Toronto woman who suffocated her sons two years ago has been sentenced to life in prison without a chance of parole for 18 years.

Vanessa Collias, 27, pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Toronto on Monday.

Her sons, four-year-old Dimitri Collias and and five-year-old Yiannis Collias, were killed one after another in her Scarborough apartment on Glamorgan Avenue in the area of Kennedy and Ellesmere roads on Dec. 10, 2023, according to an agreed statement of facts.

Court heard that Collias told Dr. Sumeeta Chatterjee, forensic psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, that she felt "broken" and "absolutely alone" and "the only thing she wanted was for the family to be reunited" after her husband Costa Collias

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