Desiree Childers Had A Busy Day

[Dakota]

The case against Desiree Childers, charged in the drowning death of her infant daughter, will go to a grand jury, but the judge issuing that order expressed doubt that it should be a capital murder charge.

Madison County District Court Judge Claude Hundley also agreed to a defense request to grant Childers' a $500,000 bond that includes electronic monitoring.

In her first court appearance, Childers, 27, sobbed audibly several times during the preliminary hearing.

Childers is charged with placing her fully-clothed 7-month-old daughter, Blakely Alexandria Fairburn, in the bathtub and leaving her there to drown. Testimony during the hearing suggested the child's father returned to their Madison home on the evening of Aug. 30 to find the baby floating face-down in the tub. Attempts at CPR were unsuccessful.

Childers was the only person home with the baby at the time of the child's death.
[...]

Childers had been arrested earlier that day for shoplifting cat toys and cat products at Walmart. She was later the subject of a Huntsville Police Department traffic stop, before returning to her Madison home.

Madison Police Department investigator Christie Gover said Childers was a patient at a local methadone clinic and had taken methadone that same morning. A toxicology test taken after the baby's death found methadone and a generic form of Xanax in Childers' system.

Gover said during an interview with Childers after the baby's death that Childers said she often had terrible dreams and was often unable to sleep. She complained about being overtired and said she had a recurring dream where was locked up alone forever in a dirty prison.

The detective said Childers never really gave an explanation for how the child ended up in the tub, though on the night the baby died, Childers accused a female roommate of killing the child. Childers told police that she ran the tub to clean it, but didn't recall placing the baby in it. Gover said that Childers said repeatedly that the baby couldn't have climbed in the tub herself, but never continued with an explanation.

Gover also said that Childers admitted being frustrated with the child for crying while she was "trying to get things done."

The baby was able to crawl, but couldn't stand up on her own and couldn't have turned on the water, Gover said, citing interviews with family members and a day-care teacher. The baby was also suffering from respiratory problems and was having breathing treatments at the time of her death, Gover said.

http://blog.al.com/breaking/2013/11/case_against_mother_charged_in.html

 

[Chinchillazilla]

shoplifting cat toys and cat products

So she loves her cat(s) more than her own baby. I love cats more than most people, but Christ.

Let's hope that dream was prophetic.

 

[mybum62]

What an adorable little girl...rest in peace darlin...I wish your daddy came home in time to save you from the beast...I'm sure he wishes he had too.

 

[brandi]

It says only she was there with the baby, but I wonder who this "room mate" is and if they have any proof of her being there at that time...

 

[Krystal]

Did she get a lot of sleep before her "I'm inconvenienced" mugshot? Because she does have that classic zombie drug face or the one that comes from being too tired to function.

At this time last week, the Hubby and I had been up in excess of 26 hours and trust me we looked like the walking dead.

 

[Dakota]

It says only she was there with the baby, but I wonder who this "room mate" is and if they have any proof of her being there at that time...

The roommate was not home when it happened.

September 4th article:

"It is an utter tragedy," Tiffany Dawn Newton, a resident of the home said. "This is a very tragic time."

Newton said she was not home when police responded to the house, located at 108 Oak Brook Circle, on Friday, Aug. 30. The call was in reference to a baby that had possibly drowned in a tub, police said.

"When I got home, there were cop cars everywhere," she said. "They didn't tell me a lot."
[...]

Newton said she has lived in the home for about a month, and did not know Childers prior to moving in.

She said she and a family live in the home, which the homeowner also uses as a functioning business.

http://blog.al.com/breaking/2013/09/roommate_of_woman_charged_with.html

 

[sum bitch]

Who in the hell shoplifts cat toys? Throw this bitch in the local quarry with cement blocks tied to her feet.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

From 2017

A Madison woman facing Capital Murder charges for drowning her 7-month-old daughter entered a guilty plea to Manslaughter.

Desiree Dawn Childers placed her daughter, Blakely Fairburn in the bathtub, fully clothed, leaving her to drown. This all happened in September 2013. The baby’s father returned to their Old Brook Circle home in Madison where he found the child floating face down in the tub.

Childers, who was set for arraignment on a Capital Murder charge, instead entered a guilty plea to a lesser Manslaughter charge.

During the course of earlier preliminary court hearings, Childers said she was stressed out that day. She had earlier encounters with the police, including an arrest for shoplifting.

She told police she had recurring dreams of being locked up in a dirty prison.

She also had a drug problem and was a patient at a local methadone clinic. Toxicology tests taken after the baby’s death found Xanax in her system.

She told police she didn’t recall placing the child in the tub.

Woman sentenced to 20 years for killing child

Woman who killed her child avoids Capital Murder trial, pleads guilty to lesser charge of Manslaughter.

www.rocketcitynow.com

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Blakely Alexandria Fairburn