Mother charged after allegedly trying to kill her children at Jefferson City hotel
Ryan Shiner
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A mother was charged with several felonies after authorities say she tried to kill her children on Sunday night in a Jefferson City hotel room.
Lydia Ginger, 36, was charged on Monday with child abuse, four counts of domestic assault and three counts of endangering the welfare of a child. A warrant was issued and no bond was set.
The probable cause statement says that one of her children called police after Ginger threatened to kill and strangle them and their siblings. Ginger allegedly tried to smother the child with a pillow.
The victim also reported seeing Ginger try to smother a 3-month-old while saying that “if one dies, they all die,” court documents say. Another child told police at the Capitol Plaza Hotel that Ginger tried to smother them, court documents say.
Ginger allegedly told police that she “blacked out” and couldn’t remember anything.
“Ginger admitted that she ‘snapped,’ adding that she’s not denying that suffocation with pillows happened – but she couldn’t remember, citing her being ‘blacked out’ due to post-partum depression,” the statement says.
Police also found several empty alcohol bottles in the hotel room and wrote that she appeared “highly intoxicated” outside of the hotel room.