A Tennessee judge has dropped criminal charges against a woman who was accused of live-streaming herself abusing her 1-month-old daughter and blowing smoke near her face.
Last month, Tybresha Sexton, 24, was taken into custody for charges of aggravated child abuse or neglect, resisting arrest or obstruction of a legal process, and disorderly conduct.
Sexton wasn’t filmed hitting the baby, he noted to the news outlet.
She was arrested last month after neighbors spotted a Facebook Live stream of her smoking near her baby in addition to apparently grabbing her daughter by the arm and dropping her.
She told them that the reports of her abusing the child weren’t true. Neighbors then arrived on the scene and showed police clips of the 30-minute video of her allegedly shaking the infant, the report said.
According to a police affidavit cited by WLOS, Sexton loudly stated that she “didn’t want that [expletive] baby anyway.” It also said that she “already told them that.”
After the incident, WLOS reported the infant is with her mother.
“I can see that because she did not hit the child,” said Beverley Edmonds about the judge’s recent decision, according to Newschannel9. Edmonds lives at the same apartment complex.
Edmonds said that she has children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Then she said she understands that it’s hard to raise a child, but her behavior was not appropriate.
Facts About Crime in the United States
Violent crime in the United States has fallen sharply over the past 25 years, according to both the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) (pdf).While the overall rate of violent crime has seen a steady downward drop since its peak in the 1990s, there have been several upticks that bucked the trend. Between 2014 and 2016, the murder rate increased by more than 20 percent, to 5.4 per 100,000 residents, from 4.4, according to an Epoch Times analysis of FBI data. The last two-year period that the rate soared so quickly was between 1966 and 1968.