Mom admitted she 'squeezed' her baby boy so hard she broke his bones: Police

A Florida pistillate turned herself successful to constabulary aft she allegedly admitted to squeezing her baby boy.

Kimberly Rivera, 29, is successful custody astatine the Broward County Main Jail, wherever she is being held connected charges of aggravated child abuse and kid neglect. According to a probable origin affidavit reviewed by Law&Crime, constabulary said the probe into Rivera began connected Oct. 18, 2025, erstwhile aesculapian unit astatine Broward General Medical Center notified the Department of Children and Families that a babe lad was brought successful with a breached collarbone and rib.

At the time, Rivera allegedly said the boy's injuries could person been caused by the baby's older brother. Police said she yet admitted that she often felt "overwhelmed," depressed, and "not truly okay," but that she would "never, ne'er instrumentality it [out]" connected her kids.

According to the probable origin affidavit, a witnesser adjacent to Rivera told constabulary that she had "come clean" to him and admitted to him, "I squeezed the baby." The witnesser saw her "crying truly bad" earlier the alleged confession, saying that Rivera was reportedly having "suicidal thoughts."

Police interviewed Rivera again aft speechmaking her Miranda rights, and erstwhile asked astir the alleged squeezing incident, she allegedly said, "That's astir apt wherefore helium has those fractures, due to the fact that of me." She demonstrated her alleged actions connected a pillow, but admitted "he's conscionable a baby," and the squeezing "would've wounded him truly bad."

Police said Rivera believed she had postpartum depression, and her "frustration conscionable took over." She besides expressed remorse, saying, "I'm atrocious that I didn't travel cleanable to you guys, I was conscionable afraid." During the interview, she reportedly expressed suicidal thoughts and was hospitalized nether the Baker Act.

When constabulary searched her phone, they said she besides wrote a confession connected Oct. 20, 2025, successful her Notes app that read, "One nighttime I fto the vexation and [postpartum] slump get implicit maine and I squeezed [redacted] due to the fact that helium wouldn't halt crying."

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Police wrote successful the probable origin affidavit that Rivera was subsequently admitted to a intelligence wellness installation pursuing the alleged maltreatment incident. According to section autarkic quality presumption WPLG, Rivera approached a deputy from the Broward County Sheriff's Office connected Monday and told him that she believed determination was an progressive warrant retired for her arrest. She was brought to the Broward County Main Jail, wherever she remains successful custody without bail.

Rivera is scheduled to beryllium arraigned connected June 1.