PA Mom Arrested Of Smothering Her 9-Month-Old Son; Staged Crib Death

A Pennsylvania mom has been charged with the murder of her toddler son, per authorities. She strangled the newborn after which staged it to appear to be he died in his crib.

Authorities arrested Patricia Hullenbaugh, 21, on Wednesday, almost three weeks after the loss of life of her toddler son, Waylon Lengthy, the Indiana Borough Police Division stated in a press release to PEOPLE.

Authorities responded to a house in Indiana Borough, Pa., on Jan. 6 after receiving a name from an unresponsive toddler, the police assertion stated. After they arrived, they discovered the newborn not respiratory and with out a pulse. 

CPR efforts from officers, medics, and the kid’s father helped the newborn regain his pulse. Child Waylon was then transported to the hospital, the place he handed away on Jan. 11.

Investigators continued trying into the circumstances of the boy’s loss of life. In the course of the preliminary investigation, Hullenbaugh allegedly informed them that she discovered Waylon “hanging partially outside the crib, with his face down on the mattress of the crib” after she’d put him in for a nap. 

Nevertheless, throughout a number of subsequent interviews, the mom allegedly modified her story.

A follow-up interview with Hullenbaugh on Jan. 24 led to police arrest her on Jan. 31. Throughout that interview, she allegedly admitted to authorities that she had put a blanket over her son’s head “until he stopped crying,” the assertion stated.

When she eliminated the blanket, he was not respiratory.

She then allegedly “positioned” his physique “in a specific way to hide her involvement.” Hullenbaugh “panicked” and positioned the newborn between the slats in an try and “cover-up” her actions, a legal grievance reads.

She additionally admitted that she waited quarter-hour after the incident to get up the newborn’s father, Kody Lengthy.

Hullenbaugh has additionally been charged with youngster endangerment and possession of against the law instrument. She is being held with out bail. Her subsequent courtroom look is Feb. 8.