FULL TEXT: Jackson, Mich., March 14 – “I don’t especially
like babies,” an 18-year-old baby-sitter explained today in revealing that she
had taken her charge, a 3-year-old baby girl, to Detroit especially to drown
her.
Following the directions of Madeline Allred of Pontiac, a
former mental patient, police found the body of Patricia Tiernan in a hotel
bathtub.
“I like to choke and kill people and animals,” police quoted
the teenager as saying.
~ First Thought of River ~
Mill Allred said that while she was baby-sitting with
Patricia Tiernan at the Pontiac home of the baby’s parents., Mr. and Mrs.
Theodore Tiernan, she decided to take the child to Detroit “and drown her in
the river.”
But when they arrived in Detroit, she said, the baby began
crying, so she decided to take her to a hotel and drowned her there.
Miss Allred said she held the child under water for about
two hours before leaving the hotel room and going back to Jackson. In Jackson
she was picked up on a loitering charge. Shortly afterward she volunteered her
story of the drowning to police.
Police said despite the girl’s talk of liking to “kill
people,” there was no evidence that she had been involved in previous trouble.
Police said they would charge the girl with murder tomorrow.
They said they would charge the girl told them she had been in three mental
hospitals.
[“Teen Sitter Drowns Baby in Hotel Tub,” Daily News (N.Y.),
Mar. 15, 1957, p. 6]
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