'I gave you life, I can f—ing end your life': Mom tried to drown 15-year-old daughter in lake after fight escalated when she threw teen's phone in, police say

A pistillate visiting Minnesota with her girl took a broadside travel to jailhouse aft constabulary said she tried to kill the teenager.

Jasmine Marie Laws, 35, was released from the Otter Tail County Jail and ordered to person nary interaction with her 15-year-old girl aft being charged with attempted murder. According to tribunal documents reviewed by Law&Crime, Laws was with the teen astatine Minnesota's Battle Lake connected Sunday day erstwhile the brace got into a fight. Deputies from the Otter Tail County Sheriff's Office were called to the country aft reports that Laws allegedly tried to drown the teen successful the lake.

Deputies spoke to Laws first, and she told them that she was lying connected the pontoon erstwhile her girl started hitting her with a towel. In response, she threw the girl's telephone into the water. Laws said her girl started punching and hitting her, and Laws admitted to holding her girl down by the nape of the cervix astatine the borderline of the water. Laws told constabulary that her girl continued to combat her, and that the miss was submerged successful the h2o from the thorax down; the girl's caput and shoulders were not successful the water, Laws said.

Police said Laws told them the miss was "never underwater for much than 3 seconds astatine a time," but her caput could person been underwater if a question came in.

When constabulary spoke to the miss and different witnesses, they told a overmuch antithetic story. According to tribunal documents, the miss told deputies that her parent threw her telephone successful the water, truthful she went into the h2o to retrieve it. She and Laws had an argument, and the miss said Laws allegedly deed her first, truthful the miss said she pulled her mother's hair.

The miss told constabulary that arsenic the altercation escalated, Laws allegedly "tried to enactment her successful headlock and flipped her, causing her cervix to deed the dock." Laws past allegedly pushed the miss into the h2o and held her down with her caput submerged. The miss told constabulary that she could not breathe, and if idiosyncratic had not pulled Laws disconnected her, she believed she would person drowned.

Police spoke to the witnesses who called 911, and they corroborated the teenager's mentation of events. The witnesses believed the parent and girl were "play fighting" astatine first, but past they saw the 2 spell into the h2o portion Laws allegedly pulled her girl by the hairsbreadth until her caput was "fully submerged."

The witnesses, who lived adjacent and ran implicit to propulsion Laws disconnected her daughter, told constabulary they heard Laws yell, "I gave you life, I tin f—ing extremity your life" astatine the miss portion holding her caput nether the waves.

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Police said the miss laic "non-responsive" with her eyes closed for a abbreviated play of clip aft she was pulled from the water. While the miss was astatine the infirmary for treatment, deputies spoke to the girl's friend, who had accompanied the parent and girl connected the trip. The person said portion the witnesses were getting Laws disconnected her daughter, she had to "physically pry" Laws' hands disconnected the girl's hair.

Laws, who lives successful Maryland, was charged with attempted second-degree execution and 3 counts of home assault, 1 of which is simply a felony. She did not look connected the Otter Tail County Jail roster connected Wednesday. Court documents bespeak that she was ordered to instrumentality to Minnesota for her adjacent tribunal quality connected Aug. 26.