Where were the parents? Someone needs to be charged and I think it should be the parents and other adults who were involved or should I say, not involved, not enough to care who was looking after these children.
Police Suspect Five-Year-Old Girl Drowned Toddler for Crying Too Much
Kansas City Missouri police said a five-year-old girl drowned a toddler for crying too much. The victim, 18-month-old Jermane Johnson Jr., lived in the St. Louis area, but was staying with relatives in Kansas City, Mo.
The incident happened Friday, June 3 just before midnight. According to Darin Snapp with the Kansas City Missouri Police Department, a mentally handicapped 16-year-old was babysitting the children, but was sleeping at the time of the drowning.
Police intially thought the toddler’s death was an accident, but after further investigation Snapp said police determined the girl took the toddler into the bathtub where water remained from a previous bath and drowned the toddler because he wouldn’t stop crying. However, police said with the girl’s young age, it is difficult to prove she understood the permanence of death.
Snapp said police consider the five-year-old a homicide suspect, but it’s now up to Family Court to decide what happens to the girl.
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