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Jonathan Gaona and Stephanie Hernandez (Greene County Sheriff's Office).
A Missouri antheral says helium bathed his ex-wife's 2-month-old daughter with blistery h2o past tried to "cure" her fatal burns with babe pulverization "like a turtle," according to police. The parent allegedly refused to instrumentality the babe to the infirmary and she died arsenic a result, with the pistillate past reportedly starting a GoFundMe for her afterwards.
Jonathan Gaona, 33, and Stephanie Hernandez, 29, are some charged with second-degree murder successful Greene County for the decease of Hernandez's daughter, Jaylynn, who died connected Feb. 11 from complications of thermal burns, according to a probable origin affidavit.
The aesculapian examiner who performed Jaylynn's autopsy listed a fig of contributing factors to her death, which included "blunt unit caput injuries, acute pneumonia and methamphetamine toxicity," per the affidavit.
The erstwhile mates reported Jaylynn's decease connected Feb. 11, with them some being interviewed and questioned astir what happened.
Hernandez started a GoFundMe aft allegedly sidesplitting her daughter, which describes the woman arsenic a "mother with 6 children who unluckily had went done a calamity of loosing [sic] my 2 1/2 period aged baby," according to section CBS affiliate KOLR. The online fundraiser has lone managed to rise $202 of its $5,000 extremity arsenic of Sunday.
Police accidental that during interviews with detectives, Gaona admitted to burning Jaylynn with blistery bath water, on with physically abusing her, due to the fact that helium was "stressed" and "overwhelmed" with having to instrumentality attraction of the infant, who was not his biologic child, according to the affidavit.
"Jonathan explained however helium and Stephanie were divorced but surviving successful the aforesaid residence," the affidavit notes. "During the investigation, it was determined Stephanie's paramour was really [Jaylynn's] biological begetter portion Jonathan had taken connected the relation of raising [Jaylynn]."
Gaona confessed to putting Jaylynn successful the bathtub, "turning connected the blistery water, getting distracted and overwhelmed by his different children, walking off, and past proceeding [Jaylynn] scream," according to the affidavit. He claimed the incidental was "an mishap due to the fact that helium got distracted," past said helium enactment Jaylynn backmost successful her crib afterward, "not reasoning overmuch of it," the affidavit says.
Gaona allegedly told constabulary that aft the bathtub burning incident, helium recovered Jaylynn sitting successful urine and erstwhile helium went to adust her "her tegument started peeling off" and hurting her. He admitted to not changing her for "half a day," per the affidavit.
Asked wherefore helium didn't spell to the hospital, Gaona allegedly said helium thought helium could heal Jaylynn with pick and powder. "He thought the pulverization mightiness crook hard and cure it 'like a turtle,'" the affidavit says, noting however Gaona conducted net searches utilizing the phrase, "What to bash for babe burns."
Gaona went connected to admit that helium physically abused Jaylynn, including an incidental wherever helium "grabbed her by the ears, shaking her caput backmost and forth," due to the fact that helium was "stressed" out, according to the affidavit.
"I'm a monster," Gaona allegedly told police. "Like really."
Hernandez is accused of brushing disconnected Jaylynn's injuries and refusing to instrumentality her to the infirmary for attraction of her burns, which yet led to her death. A pistillate that was staying with Hernandez and Gaona told constabulary she tried taking the kid to a infirmary but Gaona and Hernandez repeatedly told her not to.
"Stephanie told detectives however she did not instrumentality [Jaylynn] to the infirmary due to the fact that she did not privation to suffer her children," the affidavit alleges. "[Hernandez] past talked astir how, ultimately, her actions resulted successful her losing [Jaylynn]."
Gaona allegedly "begged" the pistillate roommate not to telephone 911 and "told her no" erstwhile she asked to notify police, per the affidavit. The roommate did it anyhow and that's however authorities discovered what had happened.
Jaylynn was rushed to a section hospital, wherever she succumbed to her injuries. A constabulary detective who went to the infirmary reported the information she was successful earlier dying successful the affidavit.
"A bulk of her beforehand torso was reddish successful colour and appeared to beryllium missing the apical furniture of skin," the detective said. "I besides observed redness, accordant with a missing furniture of skin, covering the beforehand information of near beforehand thigh and a information of the near broadside of her face. When she was rolled over, I observed the aforesaid redness, accordant with a missing furniture of skin, covering the full precocious information of her back."
In summation to murder, Gaona is charged with maltreatment oregon neglect of a kid — superior affectional oregon carnal injury, nary intersexual contact, and kid endangerment. Hernandez is besides facing maltreatment oregon neglect of a kid and kid endangerment.
They were some ordered to beryllium held without enslaved Friday. Their adjacent tribunal dates are not disposable online yet.
Hernandez's GoFundMe statement says she lives "paycheck to paycheck" and needs assistance paying for Jaylynn's ceremonial expenses, KOLR reports.
"I would ne'er ever deliberation I'd beryllium going done this wounded of having to hide 1 of my baby's [sic]," Hernandez allegedly says. "All I privation is to springiness her a decent not goodbye but spot you aboriginal baby. As hard arsenic it is excessively [sic] fto you spell my emotion I cognize your successful a amended spot with God and you volition nary longer endure successful this what we thin to telephone life."
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