Black Widow
11-07-2010, 08:06 PM
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A BABY girl was killed in a washing machine when she was put in with a pile of laundry by her junkie mum.
The horror was discovered by an aunt who opened the top-loader after hearing it clanging as it came to the end of its 40-minute wash cycle.
Cops and paramedics raced to Lyndsey Fiddler's squalid flat and found ten-day-old Maggie May still in the machine tangled in washing. Hardened detectives wept.
Last night the mother of three — suspected of using crystal meth — was charged with manslaughter as cops tried to discover if she killed the baby on purpose.
Her two boys aged four and three were taken into care.
Police chief Tom Holland said Fiddler, 26, dozed off after loading the machine and switching it on in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
The baby's aunt Rhonda Coshatt later called round to see how the struggling mum was coping.
Mr Holland said: "She had trouble waking her. She heard the washer out of balance, clanging, and went to lift the lid so it would stop. She saw the baby."
As Fiddler phoned for an ambulance, operators heard her trying to blame the aunt — who told her: "No I did not kill your baby, you did."
Fiddler's boyfriend Benjamin Trammel — the baby's shattered father — said: "Inside my heart, I can't believe Lyndsey would have hurt our little girl."
Among emergency crews moved to tears at the crime scene was a veteran detective who was so overcome he had to go outside.
Paramedic John Houser, who battled in vain to revive the baby, said of the horror: "I don't even know how to describe it."
Fiddler's family — horrified when she was arrested for drugs while pregnant — had tried to get her parental rights revoked before Maggie was born.
The mum was revealed to have a string of convictions including arrests for assault and failing to put her two boys in car seats.
The Sun
A BABY girl was killed in a washing machine when she was put in with a pile of laundry by her junkie mum.
The horror was discovered by an aunt who opened the top-loader after hearing it clanging as it came to the end of its 40-minute wash cycle.
Cops and paramedics raced to Lyndsey Fiddler's squalid flat and found ten-day-old Maggie May still in the machine tangled in washing. Hardened detectives wept.
Last night the mother of three — suspected of using crystal meth — was charged with manslaughter as cops tried to discover if she killed the baby on purpose.
Her two boys aged four and three were taken into care.
Police chief Tom Holland said Fiddler, 26, dozed off after loading the machine and switching it on in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
The baby's aunt Rhonda Coshatt later called round to see how the struggling mum was coping.
Mr Holland said: "She had trouble waking her. She heard the washer out of balance, clanging, and went to lift the lid so it would stop. She saw the baby."
As Fiddler phoned for an ambulance, operators heard her trying to blame the aunt — who told her: "No I did not kill your baby, you did."
Fiddler's boyfriend Benjamin Trammel — the baby's shattered father — said: "Inside my heart, I can't believe Lyndsey would have hurt our little girl."
Among emergency crews moved to tears at the crime scene was a veteran detective who was so overcome he had to go outside.
Paramedic John Houser, who battled in vain to revive the baby, said of the horror: "I don't even know how to describe it."
Fiddler's family — horrified when she was arrested for drugs while pregnant — had tried to get her parental rights revoked before Maggie was born.
The mum was revealed to have a string of convictions including arrests for assault and failing to put her two boys in car seats.
The Sun