Baby dead after mom tosses infant into washing machine

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Hylian

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Baby dead after mom tosses infant into washing machine, launches spin cycle: cops




An Oklahoma woman has been charged with felony child neglect after her 10-day-old baby was killed in a washing machine.

Lyndsey Fiddler, 26, was high on drugs when she put her newborn daughter, Maggie May Trammel, in the washing machine along with the dirty laundry and started a washing cycle, local station NewsOn6 reported.

The baby’s great aunt, Rhonda Coshatt, was also in the house at the time and realized something was wrong when she saw Fiddler passed out and unresponsive on a chair with the child nowhere to be found.
After hearing a clunking noise coming from the washer, she opened the lid and found the dead infant.

Fiddler, who is being held on $100,000 bail, tested positive for a variety of drugs, including methamphetamine, amphetamines, benzodiazepine and opiates.
Under questioning, she told police that she wrapped her daughter in a blanket and gave her a pacifier, but was unable to remember how the baby ended up in the washing machine and went through an entire washing cycle.
Fiddler’s dangerous drug habit spurred her relatives toward an unsuccessful attempt to have her parental rights stripped when she was four months pregnant.
This is not Fiddler's first run-in with the law, the Tulsa World reported. She had previously been convicted of larceny and assault and battery, and has received numerous traffic violations for speeding, driving without a license and failing to put her other kids in child safety seats.
Although Fiddler currently only faces child neglect charges, prosecutors are looking to build the strongest possible case against her.

"We anticipate there may be additional charges based on the information the state anticipates it will be receiving," Bartesville District Attorney Rick Esser told the Tulsa World.
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Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

Words fail me... really... I am so disgusted by this I cannot fully articulate it.

She never deserved to be a mother... that poor child.
 
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Chibibar

This piss me off to no end.

Here is a woman who was pregnant at 4 months with drugs issue and she get to keep the child and then accidentally kill her daughter in a washing machine?

Sometimes I feel the gods hate me cause I am not blessed to have my own child and yet "mess up" people like this woman are allow to have one and yet throw away such a precious gift to drugs.
 
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Jiarn

Yeah, I don't think morbid news like that is really worth discussing here.
 
IronBrig4

IronBrig4

Ugh, meth tweakers are useless people. If she was a heavy drug user when she was pregnant her baby probably had a host of problems as well.
 
Dave

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WARNING!!! Terrible, "I'm going to hell!" type joke incoming!

IronBrig4 said:
If she was a heavy drug user when she was pregnant her baby probably had a host of problems as well.
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Like the inability to hold her breath for very long.


I'M SORRY!!!!

Stories like this are terrible but a dime-a-dozen. I have no emotional attachment to the people involved and so my dark humor takes over. I'll stop now.
 
strawman

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Jiarn said:
Yeah, I don't think morbid news like that is really worth discussing here.
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If we want to discuss "X hurts child in Y way" then these "discussions" would be endless. There's nothing here to discuss - at best this thread is rubbernecking human wreckage.

I prefer that these stories aren't posted here. Those interested in them can find them elsewhere.

Otherwise, what value do they add to our discussions here? There's no real debate to be had. While "the latest star trek thing" and "new rumors regarding some geek movie" are of interest, I would not say that, "latest local inhuman act" is of general interest to the forum. Large acts of atrocity, acts that indirectly affect specific members of the forum, or acts which have value in public debate would be more interesting.

Speaking for myself, my interest in coming daily would drop if I knew that there'd be some sad story on the first page of New Posts each time I visited, with a title such as this one, where you can't avoid reading the upshot.

If this is of continuing interest to others, I'd like to suggest a single thread to hold such topics, with an unambiguous title, such as "Inhuman Nature" where people can collect, sort, and discuss these things.
 
Dave

Dave

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I would think most people would hardly ever click that thread. I probably wouldn't as a general rule.
 
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Element 117

I don't like these threads either, but this argument feels a bit like SF banning happy meals. Adults have the responsibility and power not to read these threads. Yes, you might be subjected to the title, but how is that different from seeing the newspaper headlines on the net? You have the power to restrain yourself.
 
Dave

Dave

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Ravenpoe said:
I agree with Amy. Don't censor us, man. That'd be like throwing the baby out with the washwater.
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That was the joke I'd originally typed up and didn't submit because it was too harsh. Then I saw IronBrig's post and just couldn't resist the awful, terrible, bad taste joke I did post. You may be going to hell, but I think I have an express elevator.
 
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Chazwozel

Hey, can we have like a halforums pact? Let's not post stories like this. My blood pressure can't handle it.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

There was a point where people got sick of others posting every awful news story as its own thread in General and it stopped for a little while.

How about just one all-purpose thread for news stories like this? I agree with FLP; it's just rubber necking.
 
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