Depression resulting from broken families continues to take a heavy toll. The horrid news of a young Texan mother hanging herself and her three children has sent shockwaves across the state.

Gilberta Estrada, 25, apparently hanged three of her small daughters and herself in a closet using pieces of clothing and sashes, authorities said Tuesday. A fourth child, an 8-month-old daughter, was also found dangling in the closet but was rescued by her aunt from the family's mobile home.

'It's horrendous. That's all I can say,' Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler said. The rescued infant was in good condition at a hospital, he revealed. Authorities did not immediately identify the other children, but Fowler said they were apparently ages 5, 3 and 2. Filly Echeverria, who said she was the children's godmother, identified the dead as Maria Teresa Estrada, Janet Frayre and Magaly Frayre.

After Estrada failed to show up for work, her sister, who lived nearby, forced her way into the locked residence in the Oak Hills mobile home park, about 25 miles west of Fort Worth in the rural community of 1,600 people.

Alejandra Estrada discovered the baby was still alive when she made a noise, authorities said. She called up emergency services and said through sobs that the infant was dying. The sheriff said the hangings appeared to be murder-suicide because the trailer's doors were locked from the inside and a relative said the woman had been depressed. The young mother and her girls were last seen alive Monday evening, he said.

The sheriff said Estrada had won a temporary restraining order in August against Gregorio Frayre Rodriguez, who was believed to be the father of the infant and some of the other children, after an attack on Estrada. The sheriff said the couple had stopped living together in February. Tuesday was the first emergency police call to Estrada's trailer, and authorities said there was no evidence th
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