6-Year-Old Beats His 13-Day-Old Sister To Death As Their Mother Ran Errands

This story is bizarre and horrifying, make sure to read the whole thing. There truly is something in that hideous state's drinking water. Story out of Pinellas County, Florida:

A 6-year-old boy beat up and killed his 13-day-old little sister after their mother left them and their 3-year-old brother in a van on Monday for nearly 40 minutes, officials said Thursday.

The Pinellas County sheriff explained in a Thursday news conference the children’s mother, Kathleen Steele, 62, is facing an aggravated manslaughter of a child charge, for allegedly leaving the children in the van while she ran errands.

Monday around 11 a.m., Steele took her three children to an appointment for baby Kathleen at a pediatrician due to an eating concern, but the pediatrician determined no issues.

Steele then took all three kids to run an errand at a cell phone store. Surveillance video showed she left the three children in the van for 38 minutes, said Sheriff Gualtieri.

The 6-year-old boy admitted to detectives that he threw the baby around during this time, causing severe trauma to the baby’s head and face. An autopsy determined the trauma fractured her skull in multiple places, and investigators found blood throughout the car.

"[He] took the baby, and slammed her like this, slammed her down, slammed her into the ceiling,” said Sheriff Gualtieri. “And he was holding her up like this, and then said he was flipping her, flipping her this and that way, and then she'd fall. So, the way he was describing it, he was tossing her around like a rag doll."

The boy said he put the baby back in the car seat, and when Steele came back, he told his mom about the situation, officials said.

Steele went on another errand with the kids still in the car, despite baby Kathleen’s condition, to stop at a car rental business.

Eventually returning home, Steele called a neighbor, a nurse, who immediately called 911 upon seeing the baby’s condition.

Monday afternoon around 4:30 p.m., PCSO responded to the Reddington Beach area for a report of a deceased infant. Baby Kathleen, a day shy of two weeks old, was in cardiac arrest. She was pronounced dead at the hospital.

The sheriff called the incident one of the worst things he's ever seen in his career – likely his whole life. He said perhaps the most shocking element was that the mother didn’t seem to have any emotional reaction to the situation. Cont. (Video/Autoplay)

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