Arkansas mother kills two-month-old son by stuffing wet wipe down his throat to stop him from crying
MULBERRY, ARKANSAS: A woman has been arrested for allegedly suffocating her two-month-old son to death. Nancy Williams is accused of killing her son by stuffing a wet wipe down his throat, court documents stated.
The 20-year-old woman was arrested on Thursday, September 3, after the death of her little son. A day after her arrest, she was charged with first-degree murder. An arrest affidavit showed that on September 3, around 10 in the morning, Williams called 911 and said that her son was not responding. When emergency personnel responded to the scene, they tried to perform CPR on the child, but suspected that something was blocking his airway. They then found wet wipe lodged inside the infant’s throat. Though the first responders were able to pull out the wipe from the baby’s throat, they could not save him.
Williams was interrogated by police the same day. Initially, the mother said she cut the toddler’s gums with a bottle and used the wet wipe to clean the blood. Investigators found the wipe soaked in blood at the home along with the wipe that was pulled out of the child’s throat. However, the next day, September 4, court documents stated that Williams admitted before the police that she stuffed the little boy’s throat with the wet wipe since he did not stop crying.
The accused said that her baby was screaming continuously and did not stop crying, so she thrusted a bottle into his mouth that resulted in a cut on his gums. The pain led the infant to cry more and she just "wanted him to stop," court records said. Williams also said that she pressed hard the wipe to stop the child’s screaming and crying, but when she was not able to see the wipe, she became tense and woke up her husband.
When investigators asked Williams why she did not immediately call or inform anyone about the wipe blocking the child's breathing, she responded she "had other things on her mind," as per court documents. The young mother is behind bars at the Crawford County Jail on a $1M bond.
In another incident, a boyfriend of a mother, arrested in 2019 for allegedly killing her two-year-old son, has been charged with the child’s killing. Jeremy Davis’ arrest came almost a year after Trinity Grace Pittman was arrested in October, 2019 by Coweta County deputies and charged with the murder of his son Connor Pittman.
Davis has been pressed with charges of murder, child cruelty, and aggravated battery as authorities believed that he beat Connor when he was left in his care while the mother was at work. The 25-year-old’s arrest report stated that the little boy’s bruises showed evidence of both new and old wounds consistent with physical abuse that took place over time. It added that Davis broke Connor's jaw and also allegedly contributed to exacerbating his existing brain damage including internal bleeding.
In 2019, Trinity has initially claimed that her son injured himself while playing on the trampoline. But eventually, she confessed that she hit Connor several times since she was angry with him because he had soiled his diaper and was refusing to listen to her. At the time, the mother also claimed that after the child fell asleep, she left to work while leaving him and her four-year-old daughter in Davis’ care.