MISSOURI police arrested a mother and charged her with abuse after she shared multiple disturbing videos and messages describing how she wanted to kill her son.
Emma Rigdon allegedly filmed herself suffocating her infant child with her hand and later a blanket, and then sent the clips to acquaintances while saying the acts gave her a “rush.”
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Now, the 20-year-old is facing two felony counts of abuse or neglect of a child, according to a probable cause statement from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.
In a recently released mug shot, the mother shows little emotion with steely eyes and a set frown.
The crime occurred on April 15 at Rigdon’s home on the 1200 block of Warren Street in St. Louis.
The first video Rigdon filmed shows the mother as she “pinched” and “slapped” the child, the statement said, “causing the victim to cry.”
This was just the beginning of the abuse.
The “defendant then placed her hand over the nose and mouth” of the infant, causing “him difficulty in breathing and to flail his arms and legs.”
Shortly after sharing the first video, Rigdon made a second video that police said was even worse.
Rigdon “placed a blanket and her hand over [the infant]’s face, causing [him] to cry and to grab vigorously at blanket.”
ADMISSION OF GUILT
Rigdon also sent messages accompanying the videos.
“IDK when I do that, I feel happy like adrenalin [sic] rush,” Rigon texted her acquaintance, according to police.
“I be stopping right before he dies. Last time he was blue,” she said.
The texts leave no doubt as to what the intention behind Rigdon’s actions was.
“I really wanna kill him but I don’t want to go to jail,” she wrote.
“So it’s unfortunate. He’s just gonna have to pay for his existence.”
The infant survived the ordeal but no details about his current caregivers have been made public, according to Law and Crime.
The name and age of the child have also not been released.
No other information about Rigdon’s behavior or criminal history has been made available by police.
Rigdon is being held without bond at St. Louis City Justice Center.
Her next court date is scheduled for April 24.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment by The U.S. Sun.
I really wanna kill him but I don’t want to go to jail.
Emma Rigdon
TRAGIC TIMES
Meanwhile, a 15-year-old British teen was recently stabbed to death by another teen of the same age over a disagreement at a schoolyard.
The victim, Alfie Lewis, had told the suspected killed to “chill out,” spurring him to stab Lewis several times with a large knife.
And a 10-year-old child admitted earlier this month to the 2022 murder of Brandon Rasberry in Texas.
The now-12-year-old was allegedly questioned by police over another incident and decided to open up about Rasberry.
Investigators said the child claimed that the crime was completely random and unprovoked.
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