{"id":7,"date":"2026-05-11T12:44:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/massachusettsmovingnews.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:44:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:44:41","slug":"funeral-services-announced-for-wellesley-children-whose-mother-is-accused-of-killing-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/massachusettsmovingnews.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Funeral services announced for Wellesley children whose mother is accused of killing them"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A funeral service for two Wellesley children who prosecutors say were killed by their mother will be held on Saturday, according to a brief obituary. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/massachusettsmovingnews.com\/?p=1\">Hello world!<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Kai and Ella MacAusland were students at Schofield Elementary School in Wellesley. Their mother, 49-year-old Janette MacAusland, is facing a pair of murder charges in connection with their deaths.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Kai was in second grade and Ella was in kindergarten, according to the obituary. A funeral service for the two children will be held at St. Andrew\u2019s Episcopal Church in Wellesley at 2 p.m. on Saturday. A private burial will follow the funeral.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The service will be live-streamed on the church website. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, the obituary asks that \u201cexpressions of sympathy\u201d be made in Kai and Ella\u2019s memory to the Schofield Parent-Teacher Organization. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Janette MacAusland was arrested at her aunt\u2019s home in Bennington, Vermont, on April 24. That day, police say, she arrived at the home just before 9 p.m. with a cut on her neck.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Police say MacAusland admitted to strangling her children, and said that she attempted to kill herself. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>MacAusland told her aunt, \u201cI wanted the 3 of us to go to God together but it didn\u2019t work,\u201d according to a police report.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The killings came as MacAusland and her husband were in the middle of a divorce and custody dispute over the children.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Janette MacAusland is listed as the director of clinical education for New England Integrated Health in Cambridge on her LinkedIn profile. She previously worked there as a full-time associate acupuncturist starting in July 2021.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<header>\n<h2>More stories about Janette MacAusland<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<ul>\n<li>Wellesley mother charged in children\u2019s deaths ordered held without bail<\/li>\n<li>Wellesley mother charged in 2 children\u2019s deaths set for Wednesday arraignment<\/li>\n<li>A chilling confession at a Vermont home led police to discover two children dead in Wellesley<\/li>\n<li>Wellesley mother accused of killing two children agrees to be sent to Mass.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A funeral service for two Wellesley children who prosecutors say were killed by their mother will be held<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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