Indiana dad ‘teaches wife a lesson’ by drowning baby in detergent bucket

A 29-year-old father left his three-month-old baby to die in a “bucket of laundry detergent” in an attempt to teach his wife “a lesson.”

Eliasard Moneus was sentenced to 92 years in an Indiana state prison after brutally drowning his infant son, Jacob, in a container of detergent, “sealing the lid and leaving the boy to die” in 2024.

The charges also stemmed from a savage attack on his wife with a tire iron following his son’s death. Moneus received 62 years for Jacob’s murder and 30 years for the attempted murder of his wife Edlie, with both sentences running consecutively…

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