A mother who murdered her toddler daughters because they “got in the way” of her sex life reportedly put their clothes up for sale on Facebook just months after their tragic deaths.
23-year-old Louise Porton was sentenced on August 2 to life in prison with a minimum of 32 years after she suffocated her daughters Lexi Draper, 3, and Scarlett Vaughan, 16 months old, to death, The Sun reports.
A judge lashed out at the “evil” mother before putting her behind bars for the “calculated” decision to “squeeze the life” out of her toddler daughters just because they had gotten “in the way” of her sex work.
In a cruel bid to make it seem they died from natural causes, Porton killed her daughters two weeks apart in January 2018.
She then tried to sell their clothes online in the month of June.
Posting on the Swap/Sell/Buy things in Rugby Facebook page, Porton shared a photo of the brightly colored garments in several large garbage bags and labeled them as “girls clothes” listed at £20 ($24).
While the mother did not receive any public messages showing interest in her ad, it is unclear the clothes were purchased by anyone.
Porton shared the bizarre listing just three months after being arrested on suspicion of taking her daughters’ lives.
She was still under investigation by authorities when she uploaded the photos, before being eventually charged in January 2019.
Porton had actively tried to avoid spending time with her daughters, the trial heard, and once had sex with a man while her children slept in another room.
Chris Draper, Lexi’s father, said “no punishment will ever be enough” for Porton after she took away the little girls from him.
In court, jurors saw in heartbreaking CCTV footage how little Lexi was seen alive the last time as she followed her mother into their Rugby residence.
The footage revealed the little girls had no idea what was going to happen to them. Lexi can be seen running around, absolutely unaware of the horror that would follow.
However, Porton has maintained her innocence throughout.
“My children were never an inconvenience to me and I accommodated my lifestyle and personal life around them. I still don’t know how my daughters died, or what caused it,” she told the police in a statement.
