A 5-year-old Kansas City girl confessed to authorities that she drowned an 18-month-old toddler in a bathtub because he \u2018cried too much,’ according to police.<\/p>\n
The death, first thought to be a accident, was upgraded to murder after the 5-year-old told social workers investigating the case that she didn’t like the little boy because he ‘made too much noise’, and ‘cried too much’, police said.<\/p>\n
Police say she then indicated that she drowned him on purpose.<\/p>\n
The children were in the care of a 16-year-old girl who reportedly has mental disabilities when the incident occurred. The adult who was under supervision had left the house to go pick up a relative from a bus stop. It was then authorities say the 5-year-old dragged the toddler into the undrained bathtub and submersed him in the water.<\/p>\n
According to police, the 5-year-old accused murderer has not been arrested and authorities are looking into why the children were left without adult supervision.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the father of the deceased, Jermane Johnson Sr.<\/strong>, posted this on his FaceBook page, ‘I just got asked the hardest question that no parent should never answer. What kind of caskets do I want to put my son in.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 5-year-old Kansas City girl confessed to authorities that she drowned an 18-month-old toddler in a bathtub because he \u2018cried too much,’ according to police. The death, first thought to be a accident, was upgraded to murder after the 5-year-old told social workers investigating the case that she didn’t like the little boy because he […]<\/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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7589","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=7589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}