(It’s ok though she was just struggling with her hormones 🙄)
INFANT FATALITY: Mom crushed infant’s skull with diamond ring after she punched him in the head
A Florida mother is accused of fatally striking her 3-month-old son in the head, with investigators saying injuries on the baby matched her large square-shaped diamond ring.
Jessica Vlasac, 42, faces a charge of aggravated child abuse resulting in death after deputies responded to her Lakeland home around 11:58 p.m. on Sept. 6 for an unresponsive infant.
The baby was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead shortly after arriving.
Vlasac initially told deputies she fell asleep with the baby in bed and woke up to find him face down, cold, and unresponsive.
She also made statements including, “I think I killed our son,” according to the arrest affidavit.
An autopsy found three distinct impact injuries and bleeding on the brain, including an L-shaped mark on the baby’s forehead consistent with a square-shaped object.
Detectives noticed Vlasac wearing a large square-shaped diamond ring. When officers seized the jewelry, she allegedly asked whether it was the object that killed the infant.
Medical examiners later determined the injuries were consistent with the baby being struck with the ring.
The child’s father told detectives Vlasac became violent when she drank. He said messages showed she bought alcoholic shots around noon on the day the baby died.
Sheriff’s officials said Vlasac later sent the father multiple messages stating that she had killed the infant and that he was dead, then deleted several texts.
The father said Vlasac called him days later and appeared “unusually normal” while discussing their son’s death. He also said she asked him not to show detectives their messages.
Vlasac was arrested Sept. 10 and is being held without bond at the Polk County Jail.