Mother kills her own baby for interrupting Farmville game

Rustandi

الفقير الى الله
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"A Jacksonville mother charged with shaking her baby to death has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and could face a sentence life in prison in December.

Alexandra V. Tobias, 22, was arrested after the January death of 3-month-old Dylan Lee Edmondson.

She told investigators she became angry because the baby was crying while she was playing a computer game called FarmVille on the Facebook social-networking website.

She told investigators the baby cried loudly as she played the game, which prosecutor Richard Mantei identified as FarmVille, a simulation game in which players raise crops and livestock with the help of Facebook friends.

Police say during the first shaking, the baby's head may have hit the computer.

Tobias then put the baby on the couch and stepped out for a cigarette to regain her composure, the arrest report says.

When she came back in, the family dog knocked the baby off the couch. The crying started again and Tobias shook the baby a second time before calling for an ambulance, the arrest report says.

Tobias said little during her plea hearing, except to answer the standard line of questioning to ensure she knew what she was doing.

She told the judge she'd graduated from high school.

Court papers say she went to Samuel W. Wolfson Senior High School in Jacksonville.

The paperwork also said Tobias did not have a job.

The baby was rushed to the hospital around 10 a.m. on Jan. 19 and pronounced dead soon thereafter.

Tobias remains in the Duval County jail awaiting sentencing.

According to court records, her child abuse arrest violated a six-month probation she began serving just a few weeks before after pleading no contest to a domestic battery charge.

Tobias entered her plea Wednesday before Circuit Judge Adrian G. Soud. A second-degree murder charge is punishable by up to life in prison.

Mantei said Tobias' sentence could be less because of state guidelines that call for 25 to 50 years. Soud offered no promises on what he'll order during a sentencing hearing scheduled for December.

Outside the courtroom, Mantei said Tobias' plea will help avoid the family reliving the tragedy during a jury trial.

Tobias' arrest and booking report says she shook the baby twice before calling 911 when he stopped breathing."

source http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/...acksonville-woman-who-shook-baby-interrupting


not sure if anyone posted it before, i saw horrible this news 2 days ago but haven't posted it because of connection problems. anyway i still can't believe a precious life wasted just like that, for a very stupid reason..
 

sister herb

Official TTI Chef
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Indeed; wasting not only one but two lives for kind of reason. This is how they see things in USA in court (that was my second idea after reading this news). I couldn´t find out she really were thinking to kill her baby - just without real understanding abused him badly.
 

saifkhan

abd-Allah
salam alaikum

is it really true? how can it be?
subhan Allah, what else we got to see, Allah knows the best

wassalam
 

faaraa

Nothing but Muslimah
:wasalam:

WHAT????????????:eek::eek::eek:

HOW CAN A MOTHER DO IT??????:SMILY309:

Can you provide us with the source, if you dont mind??

FEE AMANILLAH:hearts:
 

JenGiove

Junior Member
Unfortunately, stories like this are all too true. Young kids do not have the mental stamina to handle being a new mother alone. Especially the under educated ones. I'm not saying that ONLY under educated, young mothers suffer from this form of Postpartum depression (postpartum psychosis) but the more educated a person is, the more likely they are to seek medical treatment before disaster strikes. Its a medical statistic.

Its a hormonal condition and not something someone can control by will power alone....
 
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