Four-year-old Emily Rose Perrin was resting on her stomach, playing with her dolls, her golden curls hanging around her face. She was a happy child, her brother told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, though she battled cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that wreaks havoc on the lungs.
She was no doubt excited — she was turning 5 the next day.
Moments later, witnesses later told police, her mother — naked and possibly high — climbed on top of Emily and pressed her hands against the girl’s nose and mouth, according to court records. The mother was holding a chain dog leash, saying “she was sending Emily to see Jesus,” the documents said.
When first responders arrived at the home in Dupo, a village in Illinois just a stone’s throw from the Missouri border, the girl was lying on the living-room floor.
“My little sister was an angel, a little princess,” her older brother, William Perrin, told the Post-Dispatch this week. “She always smiled, even though in life she was handed lemons. She had a difficult life.”
The girl’s mother, 36-year-old Mary B. Lockett, has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder for “intentionally impeding the normal breathing” of the child, according to the criminal complaint.
She is being held in the St. Clair County Jail on $1 million bail. Her public defender could not immediately be reached for comment.
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[doublepost=1461594782,1461594668][/doublepost]Possibly HIGH???
She was no doubt excited — she was turning 5 the next day.
Moments later, witnesses later told police, her mother — naked and possibly high — climbed on top of Emily and pressed her hands against the girl’s nose and mouth, according to court records. The mother was holding a chain dog leash, saying “she was sending Emily to see Jesus,” the documents said.
When first responders arrived at the home in Dupo, a village in Illinois just a stone’s throw from the Missouri border, the girl was lying on the living-room floor.
“My little sister was an angel, a little princess,” her older brother, William Perrin, told the Post-Dispatch this week. “She always smiled, even though in life she was handed lemons. She had a difficult life.”
The girl’s mother, 36-year-old Mary B. Lockett, has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder for “intentionally impeding the normal breathing” of the child, according to the criminal complaint.
She is being held in the St. Clair County Jail on $1 million bail. Her public defender could not immediately be reached for comment.
[doublepost=1461594782,1461594668][/doublepost]Possibly HIGH???