A 21-year-old mother who did not learn from her mistakes will face charges of reckless homicide for causing the death of her baby by falling asleep with him… four years after her first born suffered the same fate.
“Oh no, I did it again,” American Aaliyah Lykins of Indiana allegedly whispered as first responders attempted to resuscitate her two-week-old baby last October, according to the affidavit obtained by media. local and reported by the “New York Post” on Sunday.
On October 9, emergency services were called to the scene of a private residence in Muncie, Indiana, where the young mother had just found her little Addilynn Lykins “limp, with no sign of breathing” after falling fell asleep with her while breastfeeding her, Fox 59 reportedly reported.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it is not recommended for new parents to sleep in the same bed as a baby.
Except that according to court documents, the woman was “fully aware of the danger of sleeping with her baby”, even though she had already caused the death of her seven-week-old baby boy, Aiden Lykins, in similar circumstances in 2020, according to the American media.
If the previous accident had not resulted in charges, even though the young mother would have told police that she “knew it was wrong” and that she “shouldn’t have put Aiden in bed with her”, this time she would have been formally accused for her actions.
According to the “Star Press”, however, the woman is not in her first trouble with the law, as she is awaiting trial for assault and battery resulting in injury to a pregnant woman, assault and battery domestic servants with a deadly weapon and battery resulting in serious bodily injury.
