10 day old baby dead-Distressing!!

**aliasmel** · 08-11-2010 13:07

I feel like crying :'(

A ten-day-old baby girl died in Oklahoma after she was placed in a washing machine for an entire spin cycle.
The child's mother Lyndsey Fiddler has been charged with second-degree manslaughter after her daughter was found in the machine along with a pile of laundry.
The death left many of the emergency crews and police who responded to the incident in tears, with a veteran police chief admitting it was the most tragic crime scene he had ever seen, The Daily Mail reports.
A family member, Rhonda Coshatt, who also lived with Ms Fiddler, told police she saw Fiddler leave the living room with the baby saying she was going to feed her, according to a police search warrant.
A short time later, Ms Fiddler reportedly returned to the living room without the baby and passed out on a couch.
Ms Coshatt went looking for the baby and could not find her, the warrant stated.
Ms Coshatt then found the baby inside the washing machine after hearing loud, banging noises coming from the laundry.
Ms Coshatt told police Fiddler had "been up for three days using meth" and that she thought she smelt methamphetamine burning in a bathroom earlier in the day, the warrant stated.
Paramedics tried to revive the newborn baby after she was pulled out of the washing machine but she was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.
Her two older children, aged four and three, were taken into care by social workers.
Ms Fiddler has previously been arrested for assault, driving without a licence and not having her two older children in car seats.
She was also arrested in April for taking drugs when she was four months pregnant

**the girls mum** · 08-11-2010 13:15

I clicked on this thread even though it had distressing - read the first line and cant do any more - the first line is enough for me to feel sick and depressed and devastated and angry (beyond angry) for that bubba.

RIP little one. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox

**Myztiks#1Fan** · 08-11-2010 13:15

RIP baby girl.

absolutely disgusting beyond words

**Areca** · 08-11-2010 14:43

OMG. I have tears in my eyes and I'm just so horrified. RIP baby girl.

**Mischief** · 08-11-2010 14:48

Wow.... Now should we revisit all those past threads about MOTHERS rights and how people deserve second chances? Shame isn't it, but she couldn't help it...the system has let HER down....

(sarcasm)

Poor little baby. Rest in peace sweet darling.

**sahm** · 08-11-2010 14:52

Unbelievable that the family member living with her knew she had been up for three days using meth and seemingly did nothing to protect any of the three children.

I hope the two older children get a chance at a better life.

**bronny-jane** · 09-11-2010 08:27

Oh that poor mother, she just needs a hot shot... Would solve all her problems.

**Amara** · 09-11-2010 08:43

I saw this at work yesterday when I was alerted to it by my coworker's horrified gasp as she read it.

It's horrifying. It's impossible to imagine how you could be so out of it that you could do this to your own child.
What an evil drug it must be to make a mother do that. The article I saw had a mug shot of the mum and she looked totally out of it. I hope the other kids end up in a happy, drug free home.