325-Pound Woman Arrested for Killing Girl by Sitting on Her: Reports

325-Pound Woman Arrested for Killing Girl by Sitting on Her: Reports
Veronica Posey. Escambia County Sheriff's Office
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A 9-year-old Florida girl may have died of a heart attack after her cousin, who weighs about 325 pounds, sat on her, according to police.

Veronica Posey, 64, of Pensacola, Florida, told police that she punished her cousin, 9-year-old Dericka Lindsay, by sitting on her, according to a report from the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office. The Pensacola News-Journal reported that Posey was charged with homicide and cruelty toward a child after paramedics responded to a cardiac arrest call on Saturday.