<p>Her husband dead and her home destroyed because she opposed female circumcision, Jane Kuria and her three children fled Kenya to suburban Atlanta six years ago.</p><p>Kuria, 46, was scared her daughters would suffer the brutal Kenyan tradition that was forced on her by an extremist religious sect. Though the family arrived with little in their pockets, they built a new life in the west Atlanta suburb of Powder Springs.</p><p>Kuria, who was called "Mabella" by family members, got her degree in nursing and began working at a local hospital and nursing home. They became active in Christ Harvesters Ministries International church in nearby Marietta.</p><p>Two weeks ago Kuria and her daughters, Isabela, 19, and Annabell, 16, were found beaten to death in their home, a crime that remains unsolved. Cobb County and Powder Springs police have had as many as 21 officers investigating the case, but few details about what happened have been released except that police do not believe it was a murder-suicide.</p><p>Kuria's 7-year-old son Jeremy, and his cousin, Peter Thainde, 8, remain hospitalized at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite after being found unconscious at the home. Jeremy Kuria is in critical condition, and Thainde is in fair condition, hospital officials said Friday.</p><p>Hundreds of family members and friends gathered at Trinity Chapel in Powder Springs on Friday afternoon to mourn the three victims.</p><p>"We don't know who did it, but those who did it will be brought to justice," Kuria's cousin, Waira Njau Kamau, told the packed auditorium.</p><p>Three white coffins sat covered in pink and red flowers at the front of the packed auditorium flanked by recent photos of Kuria and her daughters.</p><p>Mourners _ some dressed in colorful African clothing _ clapped and sang along with hymns in English and Swahili, the traditional language of Kenya.</p><p>At the Kuria home in a nearby neighborhood, the crime tape was gone but two bouquets of flowers sat next the mailbox.</p><p>The community raised more than $50,000 to send the three victims' bodies back to Kenya for burial and to help support Jeremy.</p><p>Kuria was seeking asylum in the United States but had recently been denied, her immigration lawyer Charles H. Kuck said. She was appealing the decision, and her daughters were scheduled for asylum hearings at the end of the month, Kuck said.</p><p>"Who would do this?" Kuck said in a phone interview on Friday. "What a savage act of violence. Jane was really a very sweet woman. She had made a life for herself in this country after coming here with nothing."</p><p>Isabela, a nursing student at North Metro College, dreamed of being a pharmacist. Her sister, Annabell, who friends and family called by her middle name of Wambui, was a rising 11th grader at McEachern High School.</p><p>Powder Springs is a city of about 15,000 about 20 miles west of Atlanta.</p>
