{"id":18230,"date":"2012-11-22T14:32:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T19:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18230"},"modified":"2012-11-20T15:35:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T20:35:12","slug":"family-comes-to-aid-of-mom-accused-of-killing-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18230","title":{"rendered":"Family Comes To Aid Of Mom Accused Of Killing Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As investigators with the Plant City Police Department try to figure out what led a 30-year-old woman to kill her 5-week-old son, family members of <strong>Talae Thomas<\/strong> are asking themselves the same question.<\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday, Plant City Police responded to a suspicious person call from a resident living near the intersection of West Grant and South Alexander Streets. At the scene, they found <strong>Thomas<\/strong> lying in the street. She reportedly told them she needed medical attention, and wanted to go to the hospital. When the officers drove to her apartment, they found 5-week-old <strong>Chase <\/strong>dead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas<\/strong> was then arrested and charged with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse.<\/p>\n<p>An aunt, <strong>Winnie Durant<\/strong>, said <strong>Chase<\/strong> was her niece\u2019s first child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have hundreds of pictures with <strong>Talae<\/strong> kissing and holding <strong>Chase<\/strong>. People have to understand that <strong>Talae<\/strong> was a professional, and good at her job. She really loved\u00a0 her son.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, this is a time for us to come together. We\u2019ve planned a memorial service for next Saturday, because we\u2019re putting the emphasis on the loss of the baby right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. Durant<\/strong> describes her niece as a sweet gentle person that was suffering from mental problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was living with her dad, but wanted desperately to be on her own, especially after the baby was born.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Talae<\/strong> is well educated, and her mental breakdowns started over a course of time and progressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. Durant<\/strong> said it\u2019s important for <strong>Talae <\/strong>to know they love her, and want to see her to make sure she\u2019s alright.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is going to be a tough holiday season for the family. Ever year some family has to go through this, and now it\u2019s us. It\u2019s really hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are getting together to try and make sense of all this, and at the same time giving <strong>Talae<\/strong> all the support we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As investigators with the Plant City Police Department try to figure out what led a 30-year-old woman to kill her 5-week-old son, family members of Talae Thomas are asking themselves the same question. Last Thursday, Plant City Police responded to a suspicious person call from a resident living near the intersection of West Grant and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}