@ Portland Press Herald
@ Daily Mail
Rest in peace little Loh :rose:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ryl-smothered-death-trying-kill-overdose.html
Mother forced her two-year-old daughter to drink liquid antihistamine then smothered her to death before pleading with her father for a gun to kill herself
24-year-old pleads not guilty to murder of toddler
Woman allegedly covered girl with blanket so she 'wouldn't see her eyes'
By Jessica Jerreat
PUBLISHED: 19:05 EST, 12 July 2013 | UPDATED: 20:50 EST, 12 July 2013
According to her affidavit by Detective Thomas Pickering of the Maine State Police, on June 27, the Auburn woman said she gave her daughter Loh Grenda two or three doses of Benadryl, before putting duct tape over her mouth and covering her with a blanket so she 'would not have to look at Loh's eyes'.
'Leanna Norris said that she killed Loh Grenda; that Leanna Norris put her hand over Loh Grenda’s face and suffocated her,' the affidavit said.
Benadryl is an antihistamine, which can also cause drowsiness.
Norris, who had been on her way to visit her parents in Stetson, said she killed her daughter by covering the child's face with her hand, then removed the tape 'so it would not look so horrible', according to Portland Press Herald.
After allegedly killing her child, Norris told police she drove to a cemetery in Stetson, where she took Advil in an attempt to take her own life.
http://www.pressherald.com/news/Aff...der-of-2-year-old-girl-to-become-public-.html
Pickering's affidavit, dated June 27, said Norris told another detective that she left her home in Auburn with her daughter to drive to her parents' house in Stetson. On the way, she stopped on Durham Bridge Road in Newport around 8:45 p.m. on June 23.
The document says Norris gave Loh "two or three syringes of Benadryl to make her go to sleep." Then, it says Norris put black duct tape over her daughter's mouth and put a blanket over the girl so Norris "would not have to look at Loh's eyes."
Norris said she killed the girl by putting her hand over Loh's face and took the tape off the girl's mouth "so it would not look so horrible."
After that, Norris said she drove to a cemetery in Stetson, where she took a bottle of Advil and put tape over her face to kill herself. The suicide attempt failed and she called her father, Steven Norris, before she drove to her parents' home, according to the document.
Pickering wrote that S. N. told a detective his daughter called at 2:47 a.m. on June 24. He said she told him "that she killed her baby and wanted to die," according to the document.
http://media.kjonline.com/documents/Loh+Grenda+affidavit1.pdf