WA - Mom says devil made her toss baby down hill

Police said 25-year-old Destiny Ahenakew tossed her son into the air, over a fence and down the embankment on Saturday afternoon in Northwest Spokane, according to the station. She was arrested and booked into jail for first-degree assault of a child. However, detectives said the charge could be upgraded to attempted murder.

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a man was working on a home in the area when a woman and her child approached him and asked for water, authorities said. The man told officers that he obliged before deciding to call the police out of concern that Ahenakew and her son had nowhere else to go.

The man said he saw the mother throw the 1-year-old over the fence. The boy then fell 50 feet down an embankment and hit a tree.

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SPOKANE, Wash. -
Destiny Ahenakew, the mother accused of throwing her toddler over an embankment, previously lost custody of her four-year-old daughter in 2011.

At her first appearance Monday Ahenakew, 25, seemed calm and even giggled a little before she was read the charge she's facing, one count of child assault for tossing her 15-month-old son over an embankment on Saturday, saying that "the devil made her do it."

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