Overview
- Officers responding to Sweetwater Square Apartments found the infant unresponsive in a bathtub and she was later pronounced dead at UF Health Shands Pediatrics.
- An arrest report states the mother placed the baby in a half-filled tub, left the room, returned about five minutes later, and stopped chest compressions after seeing liquid from the child’s mouth.
- Police say she told investigators she feared losing custody, said, “If I can’t have my baby, no one can,” and added that she did not regret it.
- According to the report, she said she has multiple mental illnesses, hears voices, and researched “suffocation” two weeks before the incident.
- WJXT reports police noted a domestic incident occurred in the apartment around the time of the killing, and authorities say she was booked into the Alachua County Jail as the investigation continues.