SEATTLE — A Seattle mother is accused of killing her 4-year-old son after the child was found stabbed to death in a bathtub last week.
Prosecutors allege that on Oct. 16, Joelene Louise Rodriguez, 45, murdered her son with premeditated intent, killing him with “deliberate cruelty.”
Officers were sent to an apartment at 6620 Roosevelt Way NE by the child’s father, who called 911 to report that the mother of his child had tried to cut herself. While on the line with dispatch, the father returned to the apartment and discovered the boy’s body and began to scream on the phone that she had killed his son…