A South Side mother who police said no longer wanted to be a mother was charged with first-degree murder for allegedly leaving her 5-month-old daughter in a bathtub to drown earlier this month, authorities said Wednesday.
Rozlynn Rodgers, 19, was charged Tuesday with the death of her daughter, Makalah, at their home in the 7800 block of South Ingleside Avenue, Chicago police said.
Officer Laura Kubiak said the manner of death has since been changed to homicide and that Rodgers confessed to detectives.
"The woman admitted to police that she left her daughter in a water-filled bathtub and watched her drown because she did not want to a be a mother any longer," Kubiak said
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