Baby sitter put baby in dryer
January 10, 2009Louisiana
Harvey teen charged with killing baby; she put 5-month-old in dryer and turned it on:
Reason to Blow Up the World…
A Harvey teen-ager who admitted to detectives that she put a baby in a clothes dryer so she could watch television without disturbance was indicted Thursday on a charge of second-degree murder.
Arielle Smith, 19, is accused of killing Andre Jenkins, 5 months old, on Sept. 11. Smith was watching the infant, his 18-month-old brother, and her 1-year-old son in her home at 512 MacArthur Drive. She was caring for the two brothers for her friend, who was at work, authorities said.
“She was trying to watch something on television,” Assistant District Attorney Amanda Calogero said. “She put the two older kids in a room, and she put the baby in the dryer” and turned it on.
During the three minutes Andre was in the dryer, he suffered skull fractures and extensive burns, Calogero said. The baby died at the scene, she said.
Smith initially told detectives that a pot of boiling water fell on the infant, Calogero said. She changed her story to say she hid Andre in the dryer as they played a game of hide-and-seek and that her son must have turned the dryer on.
Pressed further by detectives, Smith admitted that the children “were rambunctious and interfering with her television show,” according to a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office probable-cause affidavit.
Smith told detectives she removed clothing from the dryer, put the child in it and started the machine. Smith later removed the unresponsive baby, put the clothing back in the dryer and called her boyfriend and the baby’s mother before calling authorities, according to the affidavit. Paramedics found the baby on Smith’s living room floor with burns on his face, head, arms, legs and feet.
So what TV show was so damn important that it was worth killing a 5-month-old baby? I’m guessing it wasn’t anything on public television.
One point for watching some crappy ass show instead of taking care of the kids, one more point for sticking a baby in a dryer, another point for turning the damn dryer on, one more point for killing the baby, another point for lying to police, another point for lying to the police again, and one last point for trying to blame your own son. That’s 7.
Nod of Doom to LadyJade.
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This story is so disturbing. I dont know what to say but that teen needs to be put away for what she did. Who cares about a damn tv show you are being paid to watch the kids not to watch a tv show. My heart goes out to the family. That teen needs to go to jail for a long time. What I dont understand is why would someone even think of putting a baby in the dryer why not in there crib or somewhere close by but not a damn dryer she is fucked up in the head. Damn her to HELL!!!
This is sickening and brings tears to my eyes for this baby and the family! I am the mother of four young sons and I divorced the father of my children for putting 2 of my children in the dryer when they were 3 and 5 yrs old while I was at work, thankfully he did not turn it on but he did traumatize them and now they are in permanent therapy. Why do people do these kinds of things? I hope this girl rots in jail and in Hell! What a sick and twisted monster!