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Woman Accused Of Killing Boyfriend’s Toddler By Feeding Her Chili Powder

January 8, 2013 at 2:28 pm by Morbid

APPLE VALLEY, CA – A southern California woman has been arrested in the death of her boyfriend’s 2-year-old daughter after she allegedly forced the toddler to eat chili powder as a punishment.

On Sunday, police were called to the home of 21-year-old Amanda Sorensen on a report of a child suffering from a seizure after ingesting chili powder. The unidentified girl was taken to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead.

The next day, Sorensen was taken into custody on suspicion of child abuse resulting in death. There has been no official word on what police found out that led them to file child abuse charges against Sorensen. Investigators are waiting for an autopsy to be performed to learn the girl’s exact cause of death.

Some neighbors said they didn’t notice anything unusual at the home where Sorensen lived with her boyfriend and other children, but one neighbor said the couple fought often.

“They fight like crazy,” the neighbor said. “I went over there one day to help with the car. She came out asking when he was going to get done so they could get the kids from school. He just flew off the handle and just smacked the dog out of her”

Sorensen was booked into the West Valley Detention Center where she’s being held on $500,000 bail. Her next court appearance will be on Wednesday.

Investigators are asking anyone with information to contact the Homicide Detail, Detective Rob Trostle or Sergeant Rick Bessinger at (909)387-3589. You can also remain anonymous and call the We-tip Hotline at 1-800-78-CRIME (27463), or leave information on the We-Tip Hotline at http://www.Wetip.com.

Tags: Amanda Sorensen, Child Abuse, chili powder, Crime

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kcjosh

First of all, I had no idea that one could die from ingesting chili powder. Secondly, what an absolutely horrible way to die. I’ll never understand punishments that are just over the top cruel. Whatever happened to a fucking time out? That little girl deserved a much better existence.
CT

First – someone inserts chilli powder in all of her orifices to start and then we can go from there.

How fucking stupid. Really, you punish a 2 year old with chilli powder? WTF could a 2 year old do that deserves this stupid fucking punishment? And the Dad, he is a fucking loser too to allow any of it to happen. Fuck them both. Damn it this pisses me off.
Sam

“smacked the dog out of her”?
Delightful bit of slang, or was he in fact justified in beating her if she was cheating on him with Fido?
CT

This story has dumb ass friend – you don’t know what happened (but in a less literate fashion) – defending her written all over it. Wait for it, wait for it.
JGo555

I hope she eats Mexican flaming spicy hot burn your asshole to the point of looking like a moon crater hot. FOREVER.
http://www.facebook.com/jennifer.byars.1 Jennifer Byars

I bet I can get some ghost chile extract for this bitch to bathe in.
Buffettgirl

“He just flew off the handle and just smacked the dog out of her” – OK, I’m pretty sure I know what this means. but it’s a new on for me… it’s wrong that it made me chuckle, but it did just the same.

Poor baby girl, what a hideous way to die – I hope this bitch rots, trapped in a barrel of chili powder, forever!
Sam

That picture makes her look like an evil leprechaun. In fact, I bet she is; this kind of behaviour sounds like just the thing a leprechaun would do.
Sam

She didn’t want to kill him, she just wanted to torture him. To cause him indescribable pain without the inconvenient aftermath of bruises on the child’s body to cause her problems. How sad is it when I’m actually a little relieved that the little man died? At least he didn’t have to suffer any more than he already had, with the added bonus that this woman is now exposed as the cunt she really is. Plus, at least she is now far removed from the other children living in the house.
come_and_see

I don’t have children, but how does chilli powder kill a child?
JohnQknowitall

Jesus F’ing Christ how much chili powder was found in the toddler’s system? I can only imagine how this poor child suffered: high body temperature, flush, disoriented, heavy gagging/vomiting and possibly seizing. How could any adult think this is rational behavior towards a child no matter the child’s bad behavior?
Min0705

So a more torturous form of that game where you eat a spoonful of cinnamon? Poor kid. That backyard in the video is enough to make me want to go get the rest of them.
I love ‘smacked the dog out of her’. Totally going to use that.
OutOfBubbleGum

How much more can one man take!!!!

First, I was expected to figure out how to open Child-Proof Medicine Caps. Now, I’m expected to figure out how to open Vicious Adult-Proof Seasonings. I simply give up!

Oh, (smile) by the way, is there anyone on DD that can tell me why my Sony Beta-Max keeps flashing 12:00′?
Heather_Habilatory

Cruel fucking bitch. This wasn’t punishment, it was torture. Who even thinks of shit like this? Crazy fucks who like to inflict pain on helpless children, that’s who. Ugh.
Alice89

I was wondering the same thing. If chilli powder can kill anyone, I would have been dead yonks ago.
Athena

Ever watch Tosh, or seen some variation of “the cinnamon challenge”? In a nutshell, you eat a tablespoon of ground cinnamon and see if you can swallow it within a minute without the use of water. If you see the violence of the coughing that is often associated it, you may begin to understand the danger posed to a toddler by such an event.

Substances like chili powder (or cinnamon) can create enough damage (burning) in a child’s throat to cause it to swell up. A child could also aspirate a great deal of the powder which could conceivably impede the child’s ability to breathe.

This is just conjecture, of course, but when we’re talking about a toddler, I can see the force-feeding of a powdered spice causing asphyxia.
OutOfBubbleGum

WARNING:
PLEASE IGNORE. NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART.

I know a girl baby who swallowed a cow,
I wonder how she swallowed a cow?!
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat,
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don’t know why she swallowed the fly,
I guess she’ll die.

I know a girl baby who swallowed chili powder instead of a horse,
She’s dead, of course!!
brandi

thought they were gonna say dog shit lol but they stopped at dog, which was still pretty funny..
brandi

your terrible oobg…..just terrible
brandi

it’s a she. it was his 2 year old daughter
come_and_see

Wow, and to think it takes 10 minutes of no oxygen to your brain to kill it…
brandi

you’ve never watched 1000 ways to die? where the dudes play in cocoa powder until their lungs get coated in it and they suffocate? that one was one of my faves
Sam

Thanks, I obviously missed that. Or, I was so disgusted that the details got jumbled up in my brain? Yeah, let’s go with that.
come_and_see

Ha ha, I haven’t watched it in a while. Going to load it up on Hulu later.
saddenbytragedy

Chili powder in a child especially under the age of 5 can cause swelling in the throat and cause respitory failure.
saddenbytragedy

It can kill anyone in high doses. Especially if you breathe in while having a mouth full. It can suffocate you and constrict your breathing.
newstarshipsmell

*looks at photo, reads story*

She will have fun in prison.
http://www.facebook.com/ceisdsgilISshadow Ceisd Sgil

I was going to say: ‘that picture makes her look like a real prize /sarcasm’. I don’t understand what she thought she’d accomplish unless she intended to kill the child. F**k her, string her ass up already. Forget the trial, forget jail/prison.. just kill her the same way she killed that baby girl.
tkaz

Wasn’t there another story on here that that had happened? Or the woman made the little boy ingest something like it?? I can’t remember….I’m so jaded, it all blurs together anymore.
But forcing one to ingest a lot of anything can kill us. A teen died from drinking 4 gallons of water…
tkaz

My teen tried this. A 1/2 teaspoon instead of a tablespoon & she didn’t try to swallow it, just hold it in her mouth. The Cinnamon Challenge. Well, she inhaled & had burning pain in her sinuses for about 24 hours. She sneezed and oozed cinnamon. And cried, a LOT.
Heather_Habilatory

Awwweee. Your poor kiddo!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Anna-Hall-Grillot/100000054600337 Anna Hall Grillot

Rednecks and white trash around my area say, “smack the dog shit” out of whomever. I’m betting that is where this person was going with that little phrase and caught themselves. (Not that it’s any better, I detest that phrase, on the basis it makes no sense whatsoever) (another I detest is “for shits and giggles” it’s KICKS and giggles, you illiterate ass clowns! doing something for shits, is what a body cleanse or colon cleanse is for.)
Alice89

It was Hannah Overton. She fed her 4 year old foster son salt mix or something like that and he died of sodium poisoning. Instead of going to the hospital, she was reading paramedic textbooks (she was training to become a paramedic) and then rang one of her friends who was a nurse for advice. Then her church congregation kept writing letter and signing petitions to “prove” that she was innocent.
tkaz

Yes! Thank you!!
I just googled it to refresh my memory and I ended up on 20/20 where experts beleive he had pica syndrome or whatever. My grandma had that during pregnancy. 20/20 messed with my head – I don’t know where I stand now!
Alice89

I don’t know whether she forced him to eat it or whether he did have pica. But she didn’t seek help straightaway so she’s guilty of manslaughter at the least.
Alice89

I don’t see what’s wrong with the backyard. It’s a bit messy, full of toys but there’s nothing wrong with it.
ScurvyFree

She made him eat creole seasoning, lots of it. His sodium content was the highest recorded level in a human (adult or child), and it killed him. Later she claimed that he ate it himself, but she was mixing it with water and pouring it down his throat because he asked for more food. She called it “chili”. Andrew was a foster child, Hannah Overton had five kids of her own. Her own children were fine and treated well, but Andrew was in a bare room sleeping on a piece of plywood. She was starving him, he was trying to find food in trash cans at school, and she would punish him for asking for more. Disgusting excuse for a human being, and the only thing that annoys me more are the losers with “Free Hannah” bumper stickers down here.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Rochell-Arnold/100000587657456 Rochell Arnold

I wish he would have smacked the dog out of her then she wouldn’t have been such a bitch…..wait, I’m insulting a female dog by saying that.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Rochell-Arnold/100000587657456 Rochell Arnold

The backyard is trashy. I have a huge opposition to germs so the toys and cloth items just sitting out there becoming ripe petri dishes make me a tad uneasy.
EveryVillainIsLemons

She was probably mad at him and taking it out on the baby. People like that make me HATE people.
brandi

sounds plausable to me! after you read so many articles on here, it’s like boy?, girl?, who cares their parents are worthless, lol
Athena

Wow. I would have a hard time not vandalizing those cars. And I’m not generally that kind of person, but… Damn.
xoodloverx

Kicks and giggles? Definitely never heard it said that way. I suppose that must make me an illiterate ass clown . . . or too young to have been there when the phrase was first used.
lespacino

Jesus! What an awful way to go.
techsupp0rt

You can kill someone with chili powder?

This is how I have to find out that my husband has been trying to murder me since day 1?
Alice89

There would be no more germs than what you can find in a compost bin or vegie garden. Kids eat dirt all the time, it’s good for their immune system and helps prevent allergies. Allergies are on the rise because parents bleach the shit out of everything so that their precious snowflakes can’t be exposed to any sort of germs and therefore build an immune system. Then they wonder why their kid is allergic to everything.
Alice89

Yeah all of my sources were mixed up on this, some say he was sleeping on plywood because he kept destroying his bedding and Ms. Overton had had enough of buying expensive Spiderman bedding just to have him wreck it. The food hoarding and going through bins is a normal foster kid behaviour I hear, like trying to kill pets or siblings.
Meg

Gross, I went to school with her
http://www.facebook.com/people/Rochell-Arnold/100000587657456 Rochell Arnold

Funny, I keep shit clean and my kids are almost never sick, think the last time was about a year ago-ish, however I do let them play in dirt just not nastiness like that. There is a fine line between normal germs and deadly germs. Just sayin’
kimbev69

my mom used to give me hot sauce as a small child, and make us keep it in our mouths and swish it around…for no specific reason other than to be cruel….and chinese mustard…i can’t stomach the smell of either to this day…poor baby
kimbev69

she was a cunt plain and simple…i hate these people that blame that shit on PICA like the fat ass family in NJ that had the 5 boys and all supposedly suffered from PICA…more likely proven to be STARVATION where they were eating anything..even plaster at the point where they were found eating garbage…they all gained weight when put into a normal environment and fed correctly as i’m sure this boy would have also if he had lived
kimbev69

he hoarded food cause she didn’t feed him is my understanding…wouldn’t you if you knew you may be having your last meal for weeks
kimbev69

she still looks like a dog to me
kimbev69

it probably suffocated her…i mean it being powder i figure when she went to swallow it, it got inhaled some and caused her to suffocate
G.I.R.L.

Ass clowns? You mean butt mimes.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Anna-Hall-Grillot/100000054600337 Anna Hall Grillot

I’m hardly old, just turned 33, just ask yourself, wtf does that even mean? If you cant figure it out, maybe that’s not the actual phrase! Have you heard “get your kicks on route 66″? Now get your shits on route 66… why?? Mexican food? Waffle house? Think of giggling….does shitting come to mind? I actually happen to be shitting right this very second not a single giggle this whole damn time!
Evan Oswald

ANY UPDATES?
susan

I’d like to make her eat that fascinator.