A 26-year-old Kansas City mother has been charged for “accidentally” baking her newborn to death. Kansas City Police Department officials alleged that the woman placed her infant in the oven for a nap instead of her crib.
According to a press release shared on Saturday (February 10), Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said the mother has been identified as Kansas City, Missouri resident Mariah Thomas. Per the release, police received a 911 call around 1:30 p.m. on Friday (February 9) that reported “a non-breathing infant” at a home on Forest Avenue.
The Kansas City Fire Department, which also responded to the scene of the alleged crime, pronounced the 1-month-old Za’Riah Mae dead upon their arrival.
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According to a criminal complaint, the newborn was found “in the living room lying in a car seat just inside of the front door [and] had sustained apparent thermal injuries on various parts of her body. She was clothed in a bodysuit over a diaper. The clothing appeared to have melted onto the diaper, and it was very dirty, possibly burned on the backside.”