Posted on 02/11/2024 2:17:56 AM PST by Morgana
A Missouri mom has been accused of baking her newborn daughter to death in an oven after allegedly mistaking it for a crib.
Mariah Thomas, 26, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child after one-month-old Za’Riah Mae was found dead with 'burn wounds', according to an arrest warrant.
Cops were called to the mom's Kansas City home to reports of a child not breathing on Friday- the day after Thomas' birthday.
When they arrived, they found the infant covered in burns, with her 'blackened' clothing melted onto her diaper.
A devastated friend of Thomas' told DailyMail.com that Za'Riah was a 'very bubbly' baby, who was 'smiling all the time'. She also suggested Thomas' mental health may have played a role in the tragedy.
'Mariah had mental issues from what I know and didn’t have the mindset of a adult, she thought like a child,' the friend said, adding she last talked to the mom on Monday.
Za'Riah's grandfather told police he received a call from her mom at around 1pm on Friday in which she told him 'something was wrong with the baby and he needed to return home immediately'.
On returning home immediately began to smell smoke and found Za'Riah dead in her crib.
Thomas told him she had 'accidentally' put her in the oven, according to court filings.
Za'Riah was discovered by police in a car seat inside her home with 'apparent thermal injuries on various parts of a her body'.
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My other thought is, why was the oven on? Did she just leave it going all the time? Sounds pretty unlikely.
“Culture”? Umm...no.
“Culture”? Umm...YES!
Just look at the facts & statistics for actual reality.
Even a child knows the difference.
I find it hard to believe it was a *mistake*.
Me either.
EXACTLY
Mind of a child, combined with a possible low IQ.
Amen!
“The doctors cited reports of “school children intoxicated with fentanyl when using marijuana,” highlighting how even small amounts of the drug can easily kill minors.”
Even better than the most powerful Marijuana.
Reports of this danger are allied with “Killer Weed” movies!
Some delusional mentally ill are so preoccupied with audio and visual hallucinations that they cannot see or hear clearly the real stimuli around them.
That this woman was permitted to take a child home is the failure of the law. That she is not spayed and locked in a facility for the rest of her life is another failure of the law.
Thank a lawyer and a judge
Yea, no.
She had enough candle power in her dim brain to come up with an alibi for her act. Shut up dem baby crying for sure.
Thanks AA - so many Freepers are afraid or lack the courage to state the obvious.
This is a connected comment.
Maybe 12 years ago we drove from our home in S Indiana to go visit the oldest daughter who lived with her husband and our baby grandboy near Dallas for his work. So we took a short cut and drove through the backcountry of Missouri near Mark Twain National Forest (if I recall).
I have never before or since seen such poverty in my life including Eastern Ky. The people were quite a bit different than this story in that they were poor, white and very country. I saw families in single wides that were probably in poor condition 40 years ago, and had just gotten worse. I mean siding missing, insulation and weathered 2x4 frame poking through like bones from a rotting whale. Front yards bare dirt where so many kids feet had walked on them countless steps, pit Bull mixes chained up, concrete blocks under the cars and wheels under the trailers. Trash littering the trailers in a semi circle centered on the front doors missing their screens on out to the scraggly woods most of them were situated near. Such totally different cultures, backgrounds etc. but shockingly poor.
Yes the poverty in Missouri is not to be underestimated, at least in isolated pockets.
Post partum insanity?
Inspired by the Hamas attack on Israel?
Agreed.
That is a rite of passage, a passage from life to death...
She does look bright enough to make that mistake, doesn’t she?
Even if you pretend that one could mistake an oven for a crib, outside “Hansel and Gretel,” how does this happen?
I wouldn’t put a baby into a crib that was set at 350 degrees.
I’ve put babies down many hundreds of times, and never once would I have failed to notice a crib temperature that high.
This was murder.
*****
Yes.
She also had to turn the oven ON.
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