A Colorado woman is facing murder and child abuse charges after she allegedly strangled her 2-month-old son while dealing with postpartum mental health struggles, according to an arrest affidavit.
A Colorado woman is facing murder and child abuse charges after she allegedly strangled her 2-month-old son while dealing with postpartum mental health struggles, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by NBC News.
“She did not believe she would survive with the sleep problem and ‘didn’t want him to suffer in life like I have,’” it read.Englund was booked into the Boulder County Jail Sunday morning on two counts of murder and one count of child abuse resulting in death.
The arrest affidavit details multiple ways in which Englund said she allegedly tried to strangle her son. It also says that she had a “small laceration” on herself that she told police was from a suicide attempt. The affidavit goes on to say that Englund told police she had been prescribed a medication when she was in the hospital about a week earlier, but only took it once because she felt suicidal afterward. Englund said the only other medication she had taken recently was an over-the-counter sleep aid to help her sleep the night before she allegedly killed her son.that Englund stayed overnight during both of her hospital visits and that she left when doctors released her.
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