Mother Drowns Her 3-YO Son
On March - 1 - 2012
A Johnson County judge had warned Amanda Smith on Thursday that her say in her son’s custody hinged on better cooperation with authorities. The judge, Mark Loyd, set a hearing March 14 to determine whether 3-year-old Jacob Smith would continue to live with his grandmother — as Amanda Smith wanted — or go to live with his father. Now, that hearing will not happen. Smith, 33, Trafalgar, is believed to have drowned Jacob on Monday in her apartment. Johnson County Sheriff Doug Cox said the boy’s body appeared to have been carefully laid on a bed, his head on a pillow, by the time emergency responders arrived. READ MORE HERE
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