Mom Shakes Baby To Death

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Jacksonville mom shakes baby for interrupting FarmVille, pleads guilty to murder

October 27, 2010

A Jacksonville mother charged with shaking her baby to death has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.

Alexandra V. Tobias, 22, was arrested after the January death of 3-month-old Dylan Lee Edmondson. She told investigators she became angry because the baby was crying while she was playing a computer game called FarmVille on the Facebook social-networking website.

Tobias entered her plea Wednesday before Circuit Judge Adrian G. Soud. A second-degree murder charge is punishable by up to life in prison.

Prosecutor Richard Mantei said Tobias' sentence could be less because of state guidelines that call for 25 to 50 years. Soud offered no promises on what he'll order during a sentencing hearing scheduled for December.

Outside the courtroom, Mantei said Tobias' plea will help avoid the family reliving the tragedy during a jury trial.

Tobias told investigators that she shook the baby, smoked a cigarette to compose herself and then shook him again. She said the baby may have hit his head during the shaking.

linky (http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2010-10-27/story/jacksonville-mom-shakes-baby-interrupting-farmville-pleads-guilty-murder)

[willie pete]

Anyone that shakes a baby to death like that should be promptly horse-whipped and then sterilized

[Bullion_Bob]

Split down the nose and horizontally superimposed. Each side of the face is used to make a complete face. Interesting effect with this one.

http://i51.tinypic.com/uwo4h.jpg

http://i56.tinypic.com/4h5duc.jpg

[Cebu_4_2]

Mental illness in it's many facets plagues the western world. It is MUCH more common than people can fathom.

[mrnhtbr2232]

Artificial narcissism is the bane of her generation.

[willie pete]

Mental illness in it's many facets plagues the whole world. It is MUCH more common than people can fathom.



There....fixed it for ya.... :D

[cthulu]

Those barbarous chinese! oh wait....

[willie pete]

Those barbarous chinese! oh wait....


Yea, couldn't have been chinese, this baby was 3 months old......the chinese kill their young immediately... :D

[cthulu]

Those barbarous chinese! oh wait....


Yea, couldn't have been chinese, this baby was 3 months old......the chinese kill their young immediately... :D


Exactly, comrade. Here in the Great Society, we never have abortions. God bless us...and no one else!

[willie pete]

Those barbarous chinese! oh wait....


Yea, couldn't have been chinese, this baby was 3 months old......the chinese kill their young immediately... :D


Exactly, comrade. Here in the Great Society, we never have abortions. God bless us...and no one else!


Whoops....meant to say "immediately after they're born"... :D

[ximmy]

"Tobias told investigators that she shook the baby, smoked a cigarette to compose herself and then shook him again."

WTF... yeah, I started about 3pm. shook him for an hour or so, got tired so I took a cigarette break, then continued to shake him until about 5:30...

[Cebu_4_2]

"Tobias told investigators that she shook the baby, smoked a cigarette to compose herself and then shook him again."

WTF... yeah, I started about 3pm. shook him for an hour or so, got tired so I took a cigarette break, then continued to shake him until about 5:30...


I don't care what or why, that little kid didn't deserve that. Could look at it like a mercy killing if it was to be raised by her until it was old enough to escape. But if it didn't escape.... poor kid.

[Neuro]

Split down the nose and horizontally superimposed. Each side of the face is used to make a complete face. Interesting effect with this one.

http://i51.tinypic.com/uwo4h.jpg

http://i56.tinypic.com/4h5duc.jpg
No doubt there is a great facial asymmetry, but since the photo is taken with the face at an angle the asymmetry is exaggerated.

[Low Pan]

wow, she choose pixels over her babys life....what a sad world we live in :'(

[Awoke]

One of the few cases in which I would agree with capital punishment.

Children are defenseless.

[Twisted Titan]

Just sad beyond sad


Moment of silence for The Wee One......

[Neuro]

She may very well have shook the baby to death. I have no idea what actually happened. But I know that a few of supposedly shaken baby syndromes deaths, have been due to vaccination brain injuries, and parents have been accused of murdering their baby. A clearly mentally deficient girl like this one could have been coerced to confession, and she may even have thought she did it.

[Awoke]

She may very well have shook the baby to death. I have no idea what actually happened. But I know that a few of supposedly shaken baby syndromes deaths, have been due to vaccination brain injuries, and parents have been accused of murdering their baby. A clearly mentally deficient girl like this one could have been coerced to confession, and she may even have thought she did it.


The shaken baby rash of crimes that splattered its way across the newpapers for a few years ended up being a fraud. The doctor was revealed to be a an out-and-out liar.
The info is out there, but I can't remember where I read that tidbit off hand.