Mom went for a smoke after placing plastic bag over 3-year-old daughter's head until she stopped moving: Police

An Ohio ma allegedly told constabulary she meant to termination her 3-year-old daughter erstwhile she placed a integrative container implicit her head.

Sharon Sakoulos, 41, is successful custody astatine the James A. Karnes Correctional Center aft being charged with the execution of her 3-year-old daughter, Cassidy. According to courtroom sum from section ABC affiliate WSYX of Sakoulos' court hearing connected Friday, prosecutors said that Sakoulos admitted to suffocating her girl with a integrative bag. The alleged sidesplitting took spot astatine her location successful Columbus, Ohio, connected Wednesday.

Court records obtained by section CBS affiliate WBNS amusement that constabulary responded to Sakoulos' location astatine 5:35 p.m. connected Wednesday aft receiving a telephone that a kid was not breathing. When officers from the Columbus Division of Police arrived, they recovered Cassidy unresponsive with disposable bruises. The small miss was rushed to Nationwide Children's Hospital, wherever she was pronounced dormant conscionable aft 6 p.m.

WSYX spoke to neighbors who saw Sakoulos erstwhile archetypal responders arrived. They told the presumption that Sakoulos had "weird energy" and was "always overstaying her invited and not paying attraction to the baby."

One of Sakoulos' neighbors told WSYX, "She wanted america to ticker the babe each the time. The ambulance came, and she was lasting determination smoking a cigarette. And we were like, 'That's weird,' particularly since the mode the ma was lasting there, like, reactionless."

Police said Sakoulos admitted to sidesplitting her daughter, saying she placed a integrative container implicit the girl's caput until she stopped moving. According to tribunal records, she told constabulary she intended to termination her daughter.

During Sakoulos' arraignment connected Friday, prosecutors provided much details astir the defendant's past of erratic behaviour and intelligence illness. Prosecutors said that successful 2023, Sakoulos pleaded blameworthy to assaulting a constabulary serviceman by "[throwing] and [shaking] a instrumentality of AJAX cleaning substance" astatine the serviceman successful 2020. In 2022, she was deemed incompetent to basal proceedings and spent immoderate clip being treated astatine the Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare Hospital.

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Sakoulos was besides accused of assaulting constabulary officers successful a 2016 case. The result of that lawsuit was not specified.

Prosecutors said that Sakoulos had a past of bipolar upset and had been hospitalized for intelligence illness. Sakoulos' nationalist defender said her lawsuit was a subject seasoned who was honorably discharged.

Sakoulos was charged with murder. At Friday's arraignment, Sakoulos' enslaved was acceptable astatine $2 million. She is scheduled for a preliminary proceeding connected Jan. 9.