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PiscesDead Girl's Mom Recants, Says She 'Panicked'
A 20-year-old California mom who had initially claimed she was abducted and her 18-month-old daughter was missing has now recanted her story and told cops the toddler died from an accident and she dumped the body near a freeway. The little girl's body was found in tall weeds just off of I-5 yesterday morning.
Emma Leigh Barker's mother Stacey told investigators that her daughter's death "was the result of an accident and she had `panicked'." Cops said that Stacey thought she would be blamed for her daughter's death, so she dumped the body. Later, she led detectives to her daughter's remains in the late morning hours on Thursday.
Emma was initially reported missing around 5 PM on Wednesday. Stacey had said she was putting the little girl into a car seat to go home, when she was struck in the back of the head and "knocked unconscious." Stacey then claimed she woke up six hours later at a park-and-ride lot nine miles, where she was found partially clad with a head injury -- and no sign of Emma. Then, around 11 AM Thursday, investigators discovered the body of the toddler.
At a press conference today, detectives "It is anticipated in the near future, the facts of this case will be presented to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office for consideration," Hecht said. "The child's mother is no longer being detained, and is with her parents."
An autopsy was pending.
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There seems to be more and more of these stories of young mothers and hurt, abandoned, abused, or dead babies. Girls these days are so full of themselves that they actually believe that they can care for children when they’re children themselves. I’ve heard 15-16 year old girls talking about wanting to have babies at their age or trying to. What a bunch of bozos. It hurts to see such beautiful babies dying due to sheer neglect and selfishness.
This just makes me so sad! I don’t know if it’s more and more young narcissistic mothers who have no clue how to care for their kids, or just the news and media delivering more of such stories and our increased awareness of them…but all the same, how could one just dump her child’s body by the highway??? If it was an accident, then just call 911, right? Unless if there was some degree of guilt involved. But who knows. I just can’t even begin to imagine doing such a thing. What’s happening to people these days?
Anonymous - your assumption that only young moms can be bad mothers is ridiculous!Probably why you had to say it anonymously.There are plenty of parents who you would think are of the appropriate age who are killing their children as well these days. So get of your high horse!!!
I am a young mother. I am 22 (the same age as Casey Anthony…when Caylee was killed) and I am a DAMN GOOD MOTHER (who would NEVER EVER harm my daugher!!!!) and I am a single mother to top that. My now ex HUSBAND walked out on me when I was 13wks pregnant and I have done just fine. Its not just young mothers who can’t care for their babies. I have seen women 10 yrs older then me doing far worse! SO STOP ACCUSING AND THROWING NASTY LOOKS B.C I AM SURE YOURE THAT WOMEN AT THE STORE GIVING ME and other young moms DIRTY LOOKS! My daughter Is well feed, ALWAYS clean, gets 2 Naps a day and Has MORE then what she needs and wants!! You dont know what you would do in a situation like this. Im NOT saying it was right but get off your damn high horse and stop being a COWARD! don’t post anonymously. KTHXBYE.
How sad. This is becoming a ‘common method’ of parents who children die in accidents, or supposed accidents! As a mother, I could not EVER dump my child’s body because I feared I would be blamed by the police. It seems children are not as precious to parents in these days and times. I know that sounds harsh, but so many of these cases have happened. Family itself is not focused on enough in this society and it is not a top priority in this generation. Sadly….
I think that the young mothers that have posted here are correct that we shouldn’t assume that it is because the mother is young that this is why this happened. I think we should look more toward society in the fact that if a family young or old is struggling there aren’t many decent avenues for them to get help. Now before you flame me I’m not talking about welfare help, I’m talking about emotional support to deal with mental illness or just mental anguish. I don’t think we should rely on the churches to be the only source of moral support.
Think of the families in your life and how they maybe suffering and need your help. This may include turning them into CPS because the best thing we can do is protect the children and protect the families even sometimes from themselves.
We need to stop turning a blind eye as a society to the things we witness and start helping our neighbors. We all struggle with being human but lets look beyond ourselves and prevent tragedy when we can.
SAD!. Why would you not take the child to the hospital?. Yes, they will ask questions. Their job is to make sure nothing happened. If the child hit her head in a certain spot, even lightly she could have been knocked out, but in other spots it would take a hard blow to the head. So maybe the “mom” was guilty and then PANICKED! Because if a TRUE accident had happened WHY would you not seek help? Hell go home and ask YOUR mom for help…such a waste of a precious life.
I agree on the age issue. I didn’t realize 20 was considered a “young mom”. I was 20 when I had my first, and had two more before I was 24. It was hard, but I did just fine. I consider young to be a teen mom under 19, but I still don’t think this means you are prone to abuse/kill/neglect your baby. I think this is societal, what we are seeing now. I think kids are raised thinking everything is about them and when they become adults, and find out it’s not, it’s a very rude awakening. Respect for human life has dwindled to nothing, so what can we expect?
I hope they find enough evidence to find what really happened to this precious baby. Accident or homicide, this woman has to face the fact that she lied to police, dumped a body and staged a faux kidnapping. Sorry, but she has to face charges.
Sorry, but I’m not so forgiving in these situations. My “Nancy Grace” sensations have kicked in.
20 is an adult. Lots of women were married and had more than one kid by the age of 20. Now we think that is young b/c women are waiting to start careers then have kids so it is like in their 30’s. But that is actually an older mom. So 20 isn’t really what I consider a YOUNG mom.
The story is local to me, and the similarities to Casey and Caylee Anthony are weird. This beautiful child and her mom also lived with the grandparents, who doted on the baby and were hysterical when she was missing. I see a syndrome of jealousy, with the mom wondering why she never got the kind of total love and acceptance her parents gave her child, that along with mental illness. In the current case, the mom “beat herself up” so it would appear that she’d been assaulted. A normie doesn’t do that. A normie would call 911, even if she accidentally caused the baby’s death. When I think of all the people who would give an arm or leg to have a gorgeous child like this one, it breaks my heart. At least this woman caved under pressure and told what happened. How incredibly sad.
Kelli, why are you cussing and being so paranoid I seriously doubt anybody is giving you dirty looks in the grocery store because you are a young mother. The way your acting is why young mothers are getting a bad reputation.I was also a young mother.I had my son at 18 yrs old.I didn’t live with my parents or my husbands parents.We got out got jobs and worked for everything we had.Maybe young mothers are getting a bad reputation because now it seems grandparents are raising their children’s, children.I’m not saying this is your case,I’m saying there’s a lot of that going on.Calm down and show the world that you are a good young mother instead of raging.I’m sorry your husband walked out on you but maybe your better because of it.It’s great that you are taking responsibility for your child.
The age of the mother and/or father is not the base indicator of how well they care for their child.
My mother was 20, my father was 19 when I was born. Neither ever laid a hand on me in anger. I was 29 and 31 when I gave birth to my daughters. I’ve given both a very stern frown, time-out, and a talking-to but have never hit them.
I am doubting the explaination of the mom in this story but not because of her age. Her story of what happened sounds very suspicious.
This is super sad and breaks my heart :(
And to all of the posts judging “young parents”, in the world we live in today, people of all ages and races do horrible things like this (and worse) everyday.
She is guilty as sin! She should be locked up for premeditated murder!
I AM SORRY BUT IF AN ACCIDENT OF ANY KIND HARMED MY CHILD I WOULD CALL 911 FIRST…WHO KNOWS THIS LITTLE GIRL COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED!!!!! This mother needs to be thrown in jail!!! she should have atleast made an attempt to save that baby. but to disguard her like trash!!! THAT MAKES ME SICK!!! my child is the most important thing to me in life and i could never dispose of her like trash…she is to be nurtured/loved and treated like the angel(sometimes =P ) that she is !!!
Kelli.. it is very tough being a single parent. I was too.
oh .. and the young girl Stacey “got off”? & is at home with her parents & nothing is being done about this? )Or I mis-read it)..
It’s really sad, we used to have to worry about stranget abductions and I think i you were to look at most of the stories of children having something happen to them in todays society it most of the time ends with the parents doing something horrible. With that in mind it seems like the first thing the police and rescue groups etc should do is thoroughly investigate the family, it would no doubt end before it begins. What a shame!
Well how awful.At least she told what really happened.What are people thinking.If it’s an accident call 911.