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Minnesota mom, 20, is accused of drowning her adorable eight-month-old son in a tub because she couldn't enjoy her bath - and then having sex with her boyfriend while the infant lay dead on the hotel bathroom floor
Daily Mail UK ^ | March 13, 2024 | Laura Parnaby

Posted on 03/13/2024 12:51:58 PM PDT by Morgana

A Minnesota mom has been accused of drowning her adorable eight-month-old son in the tub before having sex with her boyfriend while the infant lay dead nearby.

Esperanza Rae Harding, 20, has been charged with second degree murder over the February 28 incident after showing up at the hospital on March 1 and claiming the toddler died naturally.

Prosecutors allege that she drowned her baby boy, Mateo, in the tub at a Bloomington hotel on the Minnesota-Minneapolis border because he was ruining her bath by crying.

Harding's boyfriend Edwin Cosmo Trudeau, 18, has also been charged with aiding an offender for allegedly turning up at the hotel and advising her to put the baby's body in the trash.

Both Harding and Trudeau also attempted CPR on the child to no avail, and had sex in the bedroom while his dead body lay on the ground in the bathroom, according to the criminal complaint.

The complaint says Minneapolis cops went to the children's hospital on March 6, where Harding claimed her son had died of natural causes on March 1.

Since the hospital had no record of her son attending, cops interviewed Harding who eventually admitted that the baby died in the Bloomington hotel on February 28.

Harding confessed that she 'wrapped up his body, put it in a backpack, and threw it in a dumpster'.

She added that Trudeau 'did not like her child and that he wanted her to give him up for adoption' according to the complaint.

'She stated that Trudeau wanted her to prove that he was her top priority,' the document says.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: bloomington; children; crime; evil; minneapolis; minnesota
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1 posted on 03/13/2024 12:51:58 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Lord JESUS, please return soon.


2 posted on 03/13/2024 12:54:28 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Tonight on The Bickersons... )
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To: Morgana

“The most dangerous thing to a child is the new boyfriend.”


3 posted on 03/13/2024 12:55:17 PM PDT by kiryandil (what Krynky doink?)
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To: Morgana

Her brown boyfriend didn’t like a white baby competing for his attention.


4 posted on 03/13/2024 12:55:20 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: Morgana

5 posted on 03/13/2024 12:57:03 PM PDT by mgstarr ("I drink, therefore I am" Rene Descartes (1637))
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To: Morgana

I’m betting drugs are involved in her life, if not this incident.


6 posted on 03/13/2024 12:57:59 PM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Morgana
??? ??? ??? Whaaaaat?

"...a Bloomington hotel on the Minnesota-Minneapolis border..."

7 posted on 03/13/2024 12:59:31 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (When I say "We" I speak of, -not for-, "We the People")
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To: Morgana

That beautiful little boy. Rest in peace, angel. Its small comfort that at least you won’t be raised a feral barabrian by your cretinous mother.


8 posted on 03/13/2024 1:00:15 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/22/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: mgstarr
She looks like she could be a cousin of the psycho girl from yesterday who was arrested doing naked jumping jacks in her front yard and burning crosses.


9 posted on 03/13/2024 1:01:05 PM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Morgana

My presumption fits here. That’s a scumbag democrat for you. The only life that matters is their own.


10 posted on 03/13/2024 1:01:17 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: WashingtonSource

Do you think she is white or has the photo been lightened. If you compare her facial structure to the boyfriend it looks similar. Same thing with the father busting into daughters classroom. I wonder if the father’s photo has been lightened as well.


11 posted on 03/13/2024 1:02:08 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Morgana

This is a girl raised in the abortion culture. If you believe you have a right to kill a human baby before birth, why wouldn’t you think it is okay to kill the exact same baby after birth?


12 posted on 03/13/2024 1:02:47 PM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: Morgana

Under Minnesota’s anything goes abortion laws, I’m surprised this wasn’t classified as a post birth abortion


13 posted on 03/13/2024 1:03:41 PM PDT by The Great RJ ( )
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To: alternatives?

Look at all of the other pictures of her on the Dailymail website and I think you might see the answer.


14 posted on 03/13/2024 1:09:37 PM PDT by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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To: Sirius Lee
Most days I work outside and this line repeats in my head over and over and over: "This world is not my home, I'm just'a passin' through. If Heaven's not my home then Lord what will I do? The angels beckon me from Heaven's open door and I can't be at home in this world anymore."

We went to dinner in town last night and I told my wife I don't need to travel any more.

15 posted on 03/13/2024 1:09:43 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: Morgana

Why can’t someone just do the right thing and save society a lot of time and money? Just this once. Today?


16 posted on 03/13/2024 1:10:24 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

“...a Bloomington hotel on the Minnesota-Minneapolis border...”

I saw the same thing - what does that mean? I am guessing they were at the Mall of America.


17 posted on 03/13/2024 1:12:58 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: exDemMom

I agree with what you said and we will spend the next several decades undoing the abortion culture.


18 posted on 03/13/2024 1:15:27 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

Boyfriends name

“Edwin Cosmo Trudeau”

I kid you not.


19 posted on 03/13/2024 1:19:55 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: drypowder

You think these morons are registered to vote?


20 posted on 03/13/2024 1:19:56 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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