GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A woman has been charged with murder after deputies say she told them she suffocated her 2-year-old daughter, admitting outright, “I killed her.”
Irene Whitehead, 27, was arraigned Monday on felony charges of first-degree child abuse and first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Ryleigh.
According to probable cause documents obtained by News 8, Kent County sheriff’s deputies responded Sept. 3 to Whitehead’s home on Allen Street off Northland Drive in Cedar Springs, where they found 2-year-old Ryleigh unresponsive and not breathing. She died at the scene. At the time of her death, Ryleigh was alone in the home with Whitehead, deputies said…