Florida Teen Accused Of Smothering 3-year-Old Sister To Death



Investigators say the 16-year-old girl was attempting to keep her younger sister quiet while their mother was on work call. WESH’s Dave McDaniel reports.

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  1. No. Parents need to stop being lazy at parenting. DO NOT say something vague or general to your teens, kids. It needs to be specific bec they are still just kids– like put on the headphones on your sister & let her watch a disney movie. I don't know who's lazier– boomers or millenials. The worst.

  2. A terrible sad story. RIP 😢

  3. 미국과 유럽과 trade 할때 한국 정부나 대만정부등은 반드시 이 illegal synthetic 마약과 이 ingredients 을 통해 이 나쁜 영들과 stress position dark energy 보내지 않는다는 조항을 집어넣어야 함. 러시아나 중국은 이 조항을 허락하는데 미국이 않하면 여기 American 원주민되고 기후변화로 지구 살수없는곳 됩니다.
    만약 중국이 삼성과 TSMC 대만이 이 미국 하고 이 illegal synthetic drug and its ingredients (90% cause of climate change) contract 있어서 중국과 러시아가 위조항 agree 하고 세상을 이 기후변화로 부터 보호하기 위해 중국에 있는 삼성 칩설비 secure 하고 대만을 가져가려고 하면 미국이 못 막음. 막으면 미국 sacrifice for their king Lucifer 됨. 왜냐면 미국이 대만을 통해서 중국으로 아시아로 재앙을 보내고 있음. 그래서 내가 apple iphone 하고 한국 삼성 폰 못씀. 이 폰들이 이 contract 때문에 지구를 망하게 하고 있음. 기후변화 main cause 임. LG battery Tesla car 도 이 contract 있어서 만약 중국과 러시아가 위의 조항을 agree 했으면 각 나라들은 중국 러시아 제품 써야 지구를 이 기후 변화에서 구할수 있음.
    만약 이미 중국과 러시아가 이렇게 나와서 각 나라 이란 각 동남 아시아 아프리카 동유럽 아랍 라틴 나라들하고 얘기했다면 대응책 있으신지요. 국민들 need answers.

    미국의 FBI NSA CIA knows everything about 대한민국 검찰 부정부패 그리고 정치인들. 그들의 돈거래. 한국의 조폐공사 미국 illuminati 가 주인. 5 만원 지폐에 칩이 있음. 지문 읽을 수 있음. 그래서 큰 액수는 정확히 location 알고 누가 누구에게 주었는지 알수 있음.

  4. easy solution, BAN ALL PILLOWS!

  5. Will Democrats consider that an Aborshun?

  6. I raised my baby sister at 17 years old. That sister killed her out of anger. She killed on purpose and then wasted time trying to undo what she did by allowing 10 minutes to pass before telling her mom. I hope she gets life behind bars.

  7. The sister should get payback the same way she murdered her little sister

  8. Works at home,
    in the bedroom,
    on the phone. 🤔
    Any ideas on what that might be?

  9. Hmmm… For whatever reason, I think this screams of drug use.
    On a broader issue…Somebody somewhere needs to start assessing whether the increase in these sorts of crimes, to include gun violence crimes, could be occurring in the hours after or the DAYS after marijuana use? It doesn't take a statatistician to notice the correlation in legalization of marijuana and the increase of certain crimes. I'm just average joe citizen and I've observed: 1. A state legalizes marijuana; 2. That state's gun and other murderous crimes, including crimes of malicious negligence like this one, go up.
    You can't tell me they are not related. And don't give me that "petty user" crap B.S: IF statistics were run, and IF you were to find out that someone was (say…)forty percent more likely to commit a violent or maliciously negligent crime in the hours and days after marujuana use…then I would have to argue that there could be NO SUCH THING AS PETTY USAGE!
    It's time somebody started crunching some numbers. This was tragic. This person sounded like the type of person cops describe when they describe someone who is "high behind the wheel": OBLIVIOUS.

  10. That's just how Florida is, must be the water

  11. Sounds like big sis was tired of playing little mama to the little sis.

  12. Really, Florida. What a shock

  13. Thinking it wasn’t the first time this teenager placed a pillow over this child’s face🤔🤔

  14. It's the government fault for taking away the parents responsibility,

  15. Yea smothering a child to death for a few bucks they both should be arrested! One for neglect and the other for murder!

  16. I don't blame mom. I blame the 16 yr old who should know better at that age! Keep her locked up

  17. They strong and independent!

  18. https://youtu.be/YsY905W3oB8Sweet Hour of Prayer  by William Walford  in 1845
    Sung by Steven F Gooden-Cohen.

    William Bradbury

    Sweet hour of prayer! Sweet hour of prayer!
    That calls us from a world of care,
    And bids me at my Father’s throne
    Make all my wants and wishes known.

    In seasons of distress and grief;
    My soul has often found relief,
    And oft escaped the tempter’s snare
    By thy return, sweet hour of prayer!

    This hymn goes to the heart of one of the most intrinsic Christian practices: prayer. For William W. Walford (1772-1850), prayer was an intensely private affair where one seeks refuge from temptations and trials and pours out the depths of one’s soul before God who already knows our “wants and wishes.”
    LYRICS:  SUNG  BY STEVEN F GOODEN-COHEN ( MUSICAL ARRANGEMENT BY STEVEN F GOODEN-COHEN AND JERRY ADAMOS )
    Sweet hour of prayer
    Sweet hour of prayer
    That calls me from a world of care
    And bids me at my Father's throne
    Make all my wants and wishes known
    In seasons of distress and grief
    My soul has often found relief
    And oft escaped the tempter's snare
    By Thy return, sweet hour of prayer
    Sweet hour of prayer
    Sweet hour of prayer
    The joys I feel, the bliss I share
    Of those whose anxious spirits burn
    With strong desires for Thy return
    With such I hasten to the place
    Where God my Savior shows His face
    And gladly take my station there
    And wait for Thee, sweet hour of prayer
    Sweet hour of prayer
    Sweet hour of prayer
    And wait for Thee
    Sweet hour of prayer

    The kind of prayer fostered in this hymn is private prayer, rather than prayers of the body of Christ gathered in worship.

    Stanza one focuses on petitionary prayer that responds to “seasons of distress and fear.” Stanza two focuses on prayers of thanksgiving where the singer shares “the joys I feel.” Stanza three returns to petitions, but the focus is on the God “whose truth and faithfulness engage the waiting soul to bless.”

    The text appears to come from Walford, an obscure, blind lay preacher who served in the hamlet of Coleshill, Warwickshire, England, in the mid-19th century. He owned a small trinket shop in the village.

    The story goes that a Congregational minister and friend, Thomas Salmon, stopped by Walford’s shop one day in 1842. Walford asked if Salmon would write down his new poem on the subject of prayer. Three years later, Salmon was in the U.S. and showed the poem to the editor of the New York Observer, who printed it in the Sept. 13, 1845 issue.

    The text first appeared in the 1859 Baptist hymnal Church Melodies, edited by Thomas Hastings and Robert Turnbull. The famous American gospel song writer, William Bradbury (1816-1868)—who composed music for so many beloved gospel hymns such as “Just As I Am” (Charlotte Elliott), “The Solid Rock” (Edward Mote) and “He Leadeth Me” (Joseph H. Gilmore)—also wrote the music for this favorite hymn in 1861.

    The tune and text appeared together for the first time in Bradbury’s collection Golden Chains, from which it has become a staple of hymnals around the world.

    The late William J. Reynolds, noted Baptist hymnologist and former author of this column, questioned the authorship of the hymn as described by Salmon. His extensive research could not locate a William W. Walford in Coleshill, but did note that there was a Rev. William Walford, a Congregational minister who served as president of Homerton Academy, who wrote several books including The Manner of Prayer.

    Coleshill and Homerton are about 110 miles apart, more than two hours by car today, but much longer in the mid-19th century. Reynolds noted, however, that there are similarities between The Manner of Prayer and the hymn.

    It is entirely possible that Salmon embellished his story to the editor of the New York Observer. It is also possible, Reynolds suggested, that William W. Walford of Coleshill and William Walford of Homerton are one and the same.

    The original stanza four has been dropped from many hymnals today, but it stresses the eschatological nature of prayer as the gateway to heaven:

    Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer,
    May I thy consolations share,
    Till, from Mount Pisgah’s lofty height,
    I view my home, and take my flight.

    This robe of flesh I’ll drop, and rise,
    To seize the everlasting prize;
    And shout, while passing through the air,
    Farewell, farewell, sweet hour of prayer.

    At the risk of offending some, I should point out that this view of devotional prayer, while certainly valid, should not be confused with public prayers of thanksgiving, adoration, petition, intercession and blessing that are a part of the gathered body of Christ.

    While I believe this hymn has a place in a hymnal, it does not for example stress prayers for the world—or prayers of the people, as they are sometimes called. This is not a hymn that fosters corporate prayer, but private devotions.

    The romanticized language adds a tone that stresses withdrawal from the world rather than engagement with the needs of the world as the body of Christ.

  19. I’d barely trust my two teens or their winner friends with a jar of Brine Shrimp let alone my two toddlers. Yes, I know what I said. F**k No!

  20. well well well, what do you know, its florida. happy home to all sorts of perverts, creeps and weirdos

  21. I was a babysitter at the age of 13. Wtf is this???

  22. Headline: “Florida-“

    Me: Yep. Not surprised at all.

  23. Some people just aren't built for the constant stress and headache of screaming toddlers. It's "temporary insanity" which is an actual psychological diagnosis where they literally cannot help it.

  24. How tragic for the family

  25. You reached to your presidents past and present, and they said Eat Crow.
    Employed, no home, no childcare, dead daughter. Hows that Crow?

  26. Disgruntled trump supporter. IM CALLING IT

  27. Throw the whole family in prison

  28. Another thing I hate is grown adults tickling kids. I stopped that real quick, sorry family tickling kids till they can't breathe isn't funny.

  29. As society comfortably dismisses the lives of children as a mothers choice this behavior will likely increase. After all it’s “her choice”

  30. Children are suppose to be getting smarter not dumber.

  31. Take her outside and play with her…..You'd still have two children today and you would have gotten your quiet.

  32. there is no free village childcare help, this ain't Sweden.

  33. It is not your older childrens job to take care of your younger children. You are the parent, do your job and stop shifting the blame.

  34. Conservatives should be going wild that's basically like an abortion at 3 years

  35. Mistakes like this can happen. Unfortunately it's in light of all the mass shootings that got Americans hot,
    hot for their demands for justice when it's the justice they want, and that can be a selfish and vain demand.

  36. The mother she be arrested

  37. Baby's do not stand a chance now a days. Thus is the devils world for now.