Debra Jeter

Debra Jeter was sentenced to life in prison without chance of parole today after pleading guilty to the attacks that left one of her daughters dead and the other critically wounded.

Debra Jeter called 911 on June 5, 2009, telling dispatchers to come quickly.

The following is an excerpt from the transcript of that 911 call.

“I just killed my children,” Jeter told the dispatcher.

Then she said, “One of them is still alive, hurry.”

“Get an ambulance out here to save the one that didn’t die,” she said.

“Come on, hurry up.”

Later she can be heard saying, “Oh my God, she’s dead. Oh My God.”

Hill County deputies, Hillsboro police and state troopers arrived at an abandoned farmhouse on U.S. 77 just off Interstate 35 and found Debra Jeter in the garage with her hands raised above the head.

Officers then found 12-year-old Kelsey Leanne Jeter dead inside the house and 13-year-old Kiersten Leigh Jeter critically injured in a bedroom.

Authorities said Kiersten had a stab wound in her back and had tried to protect her younger sister during the attack.

Debra Jeter avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty to the attacks.

I can't fathom how a mother could harm her children; let alone kill one of them. I hear about mothers "snapping" and physically harming their children and I pray for the grace that keeps me sane. I think Debra Jeter will spend the rest of her life in hell as she stays in prison and has plenty of time to reflect on her heinous actions.