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An Alexandria woman has been charged with second-degree murder in connection to the death of her 5-year-old child on July 17.

According to the initial report by the Alexandria Police Department, on July 17 at approximately 1:40 p.m., police were dispatched to Christus St. Francis Cabrini Hospital in reference to Jasmine Anderson, 24, bringing in her dead 5-year-old daughter, Audrey Chelette.

The hospital told police that Chelette was dead upon arrival and that Anderson told the hospital staff that she had been in a single-vehicle crash and that “Chelette’s head and neck had struck the front passenger’s side window.”

Police took photos of the vehicle, a 2001 Dodge. The responding officer spoke to Anderson but was “only able to get information about her and Chelette.” Detectives arrived shortly after that.

Police have since said that the injury did "not seem consistent with what would occur during a crash." Investigators could be seen combing a field on Friday morning at a spot where they believe Chelette's death may have occurred.

News Channel 5 has learned that on April 23, 2019, Chelette’s 4-year-old brother also passed away. Police were dispatched to a home on Princeton Street. According to an official report from police, Anderson told the responding officer “she woke up and went to the bathroom, and that is when she observed (name redacted) on the floor not breathing. Anderson advised it had been approximately 45 minutes” since she had last seen her child. The report states that they eventually got a pulse from the child at Cabrini Hospital, but he died two days later.

Public obituaries show the children’s father also passed away in 2016.

Police have given this statement to News Channel 5 after questions from the public started to pop up about if the other deaths will be re-examined: "We are aware of the previous incident, however, it would be premature to link this case to previous cases while it is still under investigation."
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A Louisiana mother allegedly brought her dead child to the emergency room and claimed her daughter was in a car crash — which investigators said was made up.

Jasmine Anderson, 24, is accused of bringing her 5-year-old to a hospital near Alexandria on July 17 where doctors determined she was dead upon arrival, the local police department said.

Anderson told officials "they had been in a vehicle crash which caused injury to the child’s neck." But for hours, police couldn't find evidence of any such accident.

The following day, investigators found the scene but said in a news release that evidence "indicated it was not a vehicle crash as described by Anderson."

An autopsy determined that the child died from an injury to her neck.

Anderson's other child died in April at age 4, according to NBC News. Police told the news outlet they responded to a call about a child with a bottle cap stuck in his throat. In 2016, the father of Anderon's daughter who died reportedly killed himself at the age of 20.

 
Rapides Parish Sheriff William Earl Hilton has confirmed that Jasmine Anderson, 24 of Alexandria, tried to commit suicide in the Rapides Parish jail on Thursday morning. (July 25, 2019)

Anderson was arrested by the Alexandria Police Department on Tuesday for second-degree murder in connection to the death of her daughter, 5-year-old Audrey Chelette, last week. According to police, Anderson brought the little girl to the emergency room dead last week. Her son also died earlier this year.

Sheriff Hilton tells News Channel 5 that Anderson tried to hang herself in her cell.

"She was flatlined when I got there," said Sheriff Hilton. "Our medics and Acadian Ambulance did everything to bring her back. She left here with a good pulse."

The sheriff said Anderson was taken to a local hospital. There is no word yet on her current status.
 
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Jasmine Anderson, 24 of Alexandria, the woman arrested by the Alexandria Police Department on July 23 for the alleged murder of her 5-year-old daughter, has been declared "clinically deceased" after an attempt at suicide in the Rapides Parish Jail. The update on her condition comes to News Channel 5 from the sheriff's office.

Anderson was facing a second degree murder charge for bringing her dead daughter, Audrey Chelette, to the Christus St. Frances Cabrini Hospital emergency room on July 17. According to the Alexandria Police Department, Chelette had died from an apparent neck injury and Anderson’s story changed several times as to how it happened.

Anderson was initially placed in a mental health facility in Bunkie as police investigated. She was later arrested and booked into the Rapides Parish jail and held on a $500,000 bond.

Two days after her arrest, Anderson tried to commit suicide in her cell by hanging herself. According to Sheriff William Earl Hilton, the attempt happened two minutes after a cell check. Medics were able to revive her. She was taken to a local hospital and was placed in the ICU.

News Channel 5 learned Monday morning from the Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office that Anderson was pronounced "clinically deceased" as of 4:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Back in April, Anderson's 4-year-old son, C.J. Chelette, died after apparently choking on a bottle cap.
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Jasmine Anderson, 24 of Alexandria, the woman arrested by the Alexandria Police Department on July 23 for the alleged murder of her 5-year-old daughter, has been declared "clinically deceased" after an attempt at suicide in the Rapides Parish Jail. The update on her condition comes to News Channel 5 from the sheriff's office.
I'm not really surprised. When I read this
"She was flatlined when I got there," said Sheriff Hilton.
I didn't think she would survive.

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Jasmine Anderson was in a psychiatric facility in Bunkie when arrested in 2019 on an Alexandria Police Department warrant for the death of her young daughter.

Just days later, Anderson was dead, too, after hanging herself in her cell in the downtown Alexandria Rapides Parish Detention Center #1.

Her parents, Grant Parish residents Philip and Melanie Anderson, have sued the Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office over their daughter's death. The lawsuit filed last summer alleges that Jasmine received "substandard care" from the sheriff's office and providers contracted to give medical care to inmates.

The lawsuit names Sheriff Mark Wood and the unidentified medical provider for the sheriff's office. Wood replaced William Earl Hilton, who was sheriff at the time of Anderson's arrest and death, less than a year ago.
Guillot also represented Jasmine Anderson in her criminal case.

The story made international headlines, partly because of how 5-year-old Audrey Lynn Chelette died but also because her death cast new suspicions for some on the deaths of her 4-year-old brother months earlier and the children's father in 2016.

The boy, Christopher "CJ" Dawayne Chelette Jr., died in April 2019, after choking on the plastic cap to a soda bottle, while father Christopher "Critter" Dawayne Chelette died in February 2016.

Police said at the time they would look again at those deaths, and a spokesman said Monday that was done but no further action was warranted.

Anderson had brought Audrey to an emergency room on July 17, 2019, with a neck injury. She said the girl, who already was dead, had been injured in a wreck.

But police said the injury didn't match Anderson's description, and officers weren't able to pinpoint the location where she said it had happened until the next day.

She was arrested on a second-degree murder warrant on July 23, 2019, retrieved from the Bunkie facility and initially booked into the Avoyelles Parish Detention Center. She was brought to Alexandria Police headquarters to be questioned and, according to the lawsuit, tried to kill herself while there.

When she was booked into the downtown Alexandria jail, she was put on suicide watch.

The lawsuit claims she was removed from suicide watch on or about the next day and killed herself "using an object given to her by an employee of the Rapides Parish sheriff."

Hilton gave details at the time, telling The Town Talk that she hung herself with a sheet, the act seen on a surveillance camera two minutes after deputies had checked on her.

She was taken to Rapides Regional Trauma Center, breathing on her own, according to the sheriff's office. But reports soon surfaced that she was brain dead.

Guillot had sought a sanity commission to evaluate Anderson, but she died before being examined by any doctors. After her death, he issued a subpoena in an effort to reveal the circumstances of how his client died.

He also issued a statement about how many pre-trial detainees have mental-health issues, and what he saw as a lack of proper care for them.

"There are no services to assist them; they are simply put in jail and, sometimes, as in Jasmine’s case, are not adequately protected from themselves," it read. "Our judicial system and law enforcement have to do better than this."

The sheriff's office has replied to the lawsuit, denying that any deputy knew that Anderson had "suicidal or self-harm tendencies ... after she was taken off of suicide watch at the instruction of the medical staff."

The response admits that medical staff directed Anderson to be taken off suicide watch, but it states those staff members are not employees of the sheriff's office. It also denies that proper procedures weren't followed.

The answer repeats the claim that Anderson was removed from suicide watch not by anyone with the sheriff's office, but by medical staff. That staff consists of nurses employed by a third-party company.

"It is admitted that on or about July 24, 2019, Anderson was discovered with material around her neck which is believed to have been a sheet that she was provided by a deputy for the sheriff after the medical staff instructed that Anderson should be taken off suicide watch," it reads.

Because of that, the sheriff's office believes it should not be held liable. Anderson's death and other allegations of her parents "were caused solely by the negligence and fault of third-parties for whom the sheriff is not responsible or answerable in damages," it reads.
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Baby Killer & Critter

I am sorry for the parents suffering but their daughter knew what she did and they should not get a pay day because she did not want to accept the consequences of killing her child (ren)
 

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