Mom of 2 sets of twins left her four children at home and they died in house fire, Now she’s going to prison

A mother in England has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the deaths of her four young children in a 2021 house fire. She had left them home alone while she went shopping.

Deveca Rose was found guilty of four counts of manslaughter and sentenced on Friday, according to the BBC... Continue reading here ▶

Rose, 30, had left her two sets of twins locked inside their house in south London while she went shopping. A fire broke out, trapping the children.

Police said that the twin brothers, 3-year-old Leyton and Logan Hoath, and their older twin brothers, 4-year-old Kyson and Bryson Hoath, were found unconscious in an upstairs room. They were taken to a hospital but died.

A neighbor tried to save the children by kicking in the front door after a passerby alerted them to the fire, but they couldn’t get inside.

Investigators believe the fire started in the living room, possibly from a candle, tealight, or cigarette, and spread quickly because the floor was covered in discarded items and trash.

Rose’s children ran to an upstairs bedroom, where they were overcome by smoke. Autopsies confirmed that the boys died from inhaling smoke.

Rose had told police that a woman named “Jade,” whom she had met a few days before, was supposed to be watching her children. However, police couldn’t find anyone matching that description.

At her sentencing, the judge told Rose that she had left four children aged four and under completely alone.

The judge called the case “deeply tragic” and said the children died quickly in an intense fire. He also said that an investigation showed Rose wasn’t doing “essential or vital” shopping the day of the fire.

The judge told Rose that she will have to live with the knowledge that she is responsible for her children’s deaths.

The children’s father, Dalton Hoath, said in a statement read in court that the day his four children died was “the worst day” of his life.

He said their lives had just begun and that it was every parent’s nightmare. He expressed his devastation.