Mom decides she doesn't want to be a mom anymor, enlists bestie to light baby on fire
09-08-2018, 04:29 PM
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On the night of her child’s disappearance, the Louisiana mother said it was a kidnapping.
But according to newly-released court records, the mother and another woman are responsible for burning the child alive — and after lighting the fire, the other woman went straight to her shift at IHOP, Alexandria Town Talk reports.
Hanna Barker, the 23-year-old mother, called 911 around 9 p.m. on July 17 to report that two kidnappers had taken her child from her home in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
After officers responded to her Mayberry Trailer Park residence that night, Barker told them an elaborate story: Two individuals banged on her trailer door, then sprayed her with mace when she opened it, Barker said. That’s when Barker fled her home, she said. But when she returned, her 6-month old son, Levi Ellerbe, had vanished, Barker told police, according to a police-department post on Facebook.
Just before 10:30 p.m., a fire was spotted nearby — and when authorities went to investigate, they found a 6-month-old child severely burned, police said.
The child was Levi, according to police. He was rushed in critical condition to a hospital and then airlifted to another, but died of the injuries.
It wasn’t two mysterious kidnappers who killed the child, though — it was Barker and Felicia Marie-Nicole Smith, 26, according to the Office of the Louisiana Fire Marshal.
An indictment said Smith took the child from Barker’s trailer just after 9 p.m. and traveled a mile away, where she soaked the baby in gasoline and then lit him on fire — all before heading to her shift at IHOP before 10 p.m., Town Talk reports. Court records also said Smith confessed to the murder, according to the newspaper.
According to the indictment, the fatal fire left the baby with second- and third-degree burns covering 90 percent of his body, Town Talk reports.
Smith faces first-degree murder charges, while Barker faces charges of principal to first-degree murder charges. Each was arrested just days after the child’s death.
The mom:
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The bestie:
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On the night of her child’s disappearance, the Louisiana mother said it was a kidnapping.
But according to newly-released court records, the mother and another woman are responsible for burning the child alive — and after lighting the fire, the other woman went straight to her shift at IHOP, Alexandria Town Talk reports.
Hanna Barker, the 23-year-old mother, called 911 around 9 p.m. on July 17 to report that two kidnappers had taken her child from her home in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
After officers responded to her Mayberry Trailer Park residence that night, Barker told them an elaborate story: Two individuals banged on her trailer door, then sprayed her with mace when she opened it, Barker said. That’s when Barker fled her home, she said. But when she returned, her 6-month old son, Levi Ellerbe, had vanished, Barker told police, according to a police-department post on Facebook.
Just before 10:30 p.m., a fire was spotted nearby — and when authorities went to investigate, they found a 6-month-old child severely burned, police said.
The child was Levi, according to police. He was rushed in critical condition to a hospital and then airlifted to another, but died of the injuries.
It wasn’t two mysterious kidnappers who killed the child, though — it was Barker and Felicia Marie-Nicole Smith, 26, according to the Office of the Louisiana Fire Marshal.
An indictment said Smith took the child from Barker’s trailer just after 9 p.m. and traveled a mile away, where she soaked the baby in gasoline and then lit him on fire — all before heading to her shift at IHOP before 10 p.m., Town Talk reports. Court records also said Smith confessed to the murder, according to the newspaper.
According to the indictment, the fatal fire left the baby with second- and third-degree burns covering 90 percent of his body, Town Talk reports.
Smith faces first-degree murder charges, while Barker faces charges of principal to first-degree murder charges. Each was arrested just days after the child’s death.
The mom:
The bestie: