A Missouri woman is facing charges of first-degree murder and first-degree attempted murder after driving her vehicle into the Kansas River with her two children inside, according to reports.
Local media reports said that her 1-year-old son was rescued from the river.
‘She Didn’t Want Anybody to Have Her Kids’
Clinton Bradley, the father of the slain 5-year-old girl, named Amiyah, told the Kansas City Star that Dingledine had recently been released from a 24-hour hold in a mental institution. She was sent there following a domestic violence dispute with the 1-year-old’s father, her current boyfriend, said Bradley.“She didn’t want anybody to have her kids,” he told the Star. “She thought someone was going to take them from her.”
Upon her release, she was slated to have a meeting with Kansas Social Services officials, Bradley told the paper. “She could have reached out,” he added.
Bradley said that the 1-year-old boy, Elijah, is fighting to survive in a Lawrence hospital, and he added that if he does survive, he will “never be the same kid physically or mentally,” the newspaper reported.
In a court hearing on Aug. 7, the woman’s newly appointed attorney, Carol Cline, said, “What we’re going to do first is I’m going to file a motion to evaluate competency,” according to the Journal-World. The judge scheduled Dingledine’s next hearing for Aug. 28.
“I’m just trying to do everything I can do for her funeral to make up for everything I missed out on,” he told the paper. “I figured she would grow old enough to say, ‘I want to see my dad.’ But she didn’t grow old enough to ask those questions.”
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