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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Yes.
She also had to ignore what had to be blood curdling screams from that baby as it was being cooked alive.
Of it could be global warming.
Exactly. It was no mistake.
That was exactly my first thought.
Well, yeah.
please tell me this is comms....
Again, no mention of baby daddy.
An oven and a crib looks so much alike...
If you are either HIGH ON DRUGS, DRUNK or BOTH!!
RIP little gir
I guess she was just performing a “post-partum abortion”. Truely an evil my Christian mind cannot comprehend. Where was the baby’s father at?
I’m not buying it either. Mrs Deplorable just said that no one could mistake an oven for a crib.
Ughhh... I need a picture of Bo Derek when she was in the movie 10!! Eye bleach please!!!
It used to be common practice to sterilize a young woman who had chronic mental issues, but was socialized enough to mix with the general population; meaning males of her own age.
Many advocates for the mentally ill considered this cruel and disrespectful treatment. But the fate of this infant is s worst case scenario reason why such involuntary sterilization was done.
Oh wow, a black female.
Gosh...
Most likely not working at a real job...bet he has 20 kids running around who never met him...
The “mother’s” actions were cruel and grotesque to the 10th power. We here are angry at her for doing something so vile and so stupid, but if you can look at her objectively for a moment, she is not physically ugly. She is overweight, like many new mothers are, but there is nothing wrong with her features, at least those features on the outside.
Inside, she’s a trainwreck, and probably always will be.
This sounds very much like the title story in The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales,
by Oliver Sacks.
That is, a profound neurological dysfunction. Someone who has temporarily or permanently lost their spatial reference abilities. Quite literally unable to distinguish between her babies crib and the kitchen oven.
God have mercy on us all. Just wow.
“The mother thought like a child.”
I wonder who the baby daddy is.
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