How can a mother have the heart to abandon two children?!

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This week, two french children, aged 5 and 3, were abandoned in a wooded area in Portugal. The news shocked the entire country. Their mother and stepfather blindfolded them and told them to go find a toy in the woods. A baker passing by the road found the two children crying and very frightened. The parents were arrested two days later, they were in a Park, 200 kilometres from where they abandoned the children. I don't understand how a mother can do something so monstrous! She didn't abandon them at the door of a church or a charity, She abandoned them on the woods, next to a road, blindfolded, in a country where they don't speak the language. It is horrible! Such small children could have been taken by a car, be harmed by mean people, gotten lost in the woods or been attacted by an animal... There are so many couples waiting to adopt, it would have been better to give the children for adoption. This was the first case of children abandonment I'd ever heard of. Has something like this ever happened where you live? Picture of the two children abandoned.