A young Missouri mother was charged this week after she allegedly sent disturbing videos of herself abusing her infant son to a friend.
Emma Rigdon, 20, filmed herself slapping the baby and placing her hands and a blanket over his face on April 15 and sent the clip to her friend.
Rigdon allegedly filmed a similar video, minutes later, and sent it to the friend with a text that read:
“IDK when I do that, I feel happy like adrenalin rush. I be stopping right before he dies. Last time, he was blue.”
“I really wanna kill him but I don’t want to go to jail so. It’s unfortunate. He’s just gonna have to pay for his existence.”
Rigdon was charged with abuse or neglect of a child. Her lawyer argued that she suffered from a personality disorder in addition to postpartum depression.
