A teenage mother has been charged with the murder of her baby after police searched her phone to find she had Googled how to kill the tot “instantly.”Police in Chandler, Arizona, arrested 19-year-old Jenna Folwell after finding the body of her four-week-old son in a bag in her apartment.
Authorities allege the woman drowned her baby in the bathtub to stop him crying. The suspect put her son’s body in a duffel bag before calling cops from a local park at around 1.30 pm on Wednesday to report that a stranger had snatched him, authorities said.
She said she was putting her son in his car seat when a kidnapper put a bag overhead from behind before running off with the child.
But after police launched a search officer found the dead child in the flat just after 3.30 pm.
The teenage mum then told officers that she had found the boy face down in the bathtub after she had passed out or fainted, reports Fox News.
According to the police report, Folwell’s phone included around 100 web searches including “ways to die instantly” and “missing babies cases.”
The suspect also allegedly searched for how long it takes for a baby to drown, reports 12 News.
When cops confronted the suspect with the online searches she then claimed she had let go of her son in the bath, reports local media.
She allegedly admitted drowning the baby because she could not bear to hear him cry, reports USA Today.
According to police, after about one minute underwater, Folwell took her son out of the tub and attempted to give him CPRShe is being held on a £800,000 ($1million) cash bond.
