Sharon Sakoulos Intended To Kill 3YO Daughter When She Placed Plastic Bag Over Her Head

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Sharon Sakoulos, 41, is in custody after being charged with the murder of her 3-year-old daughter, Cassidy.

According to courtroom coverage from local ABC affiliate WSYX of Sakoulos' court hearing on Friday, prosecutors said that Sakoulos admitted to suffocating her daughter with a plastic bag. The alleged killing took place at her home in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday.

Court records obtained by local CBS affiliate WBNS show that police responded to Sakoulos' home at 5:35 p.m. on Wednesday after receiving a call that a child was not breathing. When officers from the Columbus Division of Police arrived, they found Cassidy unresponsive with visible bruises. The little girl was rushed to Nationwide Children's Hospital, where she was pronounced dead just after 6 p.m.

Police said Sakoulos admitted to killing her daughter, saying she placed a plastic bag over the girl's head until she stopped moving. According to court records, she told police she intended to kill her daughter.

During Sakoulos' arraignment on Friday, prosecutors provided more details about the defendant's history of erratic behavior and mental illness (bipolar disorder). Prosecutors said that in 2023, Sakoulos pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer by "[throwing] and [shaking] a container of AJAX cleaning substance" at the officer in 2020. In 2022, she was deemed incompetent to stand trial and spent some time being treated at the Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare Hospital.

Mom placed plastic bag over 3-year-old daughter's head until she stopped moving: Police

When police arrived, they found Cassidy unresponsive with visible bruises. The little girl was rushed to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

lawandcrime.com

 

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Cassidy

 

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oh my look at those beautiful eyes and lashes how could anyone hurt that child ............ i had a friend that was diagnose with bipolar dis. and got put on a regime of injections so many times a year and lived a very normal life, the only time we could tell about her condition, if you really knew her, was about a day or 2 before her next injection...

 

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she was deemed incompetent to stand trial and spent some time being treated at the Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare Hospital

Then why in the bloody hell was this baby left with her, if she had already spent time in the loony bin and had charges of violence against her????

How that poor baby must have fought her, only to to be overpowered in the end, I truly hope they make sure she is competent and send her to hell for ever.

 

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"This is — it's kind of traumatizing," Tristan Price said.

"I feel like nobody deserves to die at that age, for sure," Gray added.

Neighbors describe Cassidy as always running around the neighborhood with her mother.

"Yeah, happy go lucky for sure," Gray said. "She says hello to me. She runs up to my door. Dang, that's crazy. People are crazy."

The Prices told ABC 6 they occasionally would watch little Cassidy, and they said they could have never imagined seeing cop cars and flashing lights taking her away to Nationwide Children's Hospital.

"She was a huge Scooby-Doo fan," they said. "She's got really pretty curly brown hair. And for Halloween, she was a unicorn princess. My little Scooby Doo buddy.. It was a gut punch."

Meanwhile, the Prices also said the mother gave them a "weird energy," describing interactions they had with her as "always overstaying her welcome and not paying attention to the baby."

"She wanted us to watch the baby all the time," they said. "The ambulance came, and she was standing there smoking a cigarette. And we were like, 'That's weird,' especially since the way the mom was standing there, like, reactionless."

"We could have probably been friends, but they were extremely off," the pair added.


ABC 6 reached out to Franklin County Children's Services. A representative from the agency told me they were not actively working with Cassidy's family, and their last interactions were from more than a year and a half ago.

Neighbors disgusted after 'happy go lucky' 3-year-old found dead, mother charged

A southside Columbus mother, 41-year-old Sharon Sakoulos, has now been charged with murder after police say she killed her 3-year-old daughter New Year's Eve.

cbsaustin.com