BATON ROUGE – A 42-year-old woman was arrested after reportedly admitting to police that she threw her 10-month-old daughter out of a second-story window.
Lisa Pearson was arrested for attempted second-degree murder on May 29 after allegedly tossing her child out of the window of a home along Old Plantation Lane. Witnesses told officers that Pearson said, “God told me to do it.”
Family members told officers that Pearson was experiencing a severe postpartum mental health episode that started days before the arrest happened. According to a Baton Rouge Police Department report, Pearson’s family noticed the shift on May 24…