A Kentucky mother sentenced last week to to life in prison for the shooting deaths of her two young children told deputies after the murders that she loves her children but video games and YouTube had “mess[ed]their minds up.”

Tiffanie Lucas pleaded guilty to killing Maurice Baker Jr., 6, and Jayden Howard, 9, in October after initially trying to mount an insanity defense, as CrimeOnline reported. She told deputies that shooting the boys in the head “was an accident” and that she was  “manipulated through Facebook, through the internet or through Wi-Fi … into doing what she did.”

But before making those statement, Lucas complained about a deputy moving his fingers while watching over her in an interrogation room.

“I’m watching you on camera move your fingers several times,” she says, according to video obtained by Law&Crime. “You just keep moving them. Stop. I’m watching. It’s not right.”

After a detective enters to interview her, she says that video game consoles and YouTube manipulate children’s minds.

“I know I look crazy but I’m not crazy,” she said. “I love my children. I love my boys so much. I wouldn’t have hurt them but I just felt like I was letting them play the video games and I wasn’t like focusing how I was supposed to, you know? Video games and the YouTube and the kids, it just messes their minds up to where people can manipulate their parents or do whatever they want. I feel like someone put something upon my house or me or something. I just don’t feel right. I don’t do this. I love my kids.”

A neighbor called 911 on November 8, 2023, after finding the two children in her home with gunshot wounds. The neighbor went to her house after she showed up at their house and collapsed on the driveway, screaming that the children “were dying.”

Body camera footage shows a deputies arrival on the scene after initial deputies have already handcuffed Lucas on the ground. That deputy puts Lucas in his vehicle for transportation to police headquarters.

A judge sentenced Lucas to consecutive life sentences in a Bullitt County courtroom on Friday after family members provided emotional victim impact statements on the deaths of the two young boys.

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[Featured image: Jayden Howard, Maurice Baker, and Tiffanie Lucas/Facebook]