Iosco County Jail
A 22-year-old mom who allegedly stabbed her personal 3-year-old daughter to demise and stashed the physique in a trash bag informed a Little one Protecting Companies investigator that SpongeBob Squarepants ordered the homicide.
That’s in accordance with Ryan Eberline, the CPS investigator who interviewed Justine Johnson in jail after the latter had been arrested on costs of felony homicide and first-degree baby abuse. Eberline testified in court docket Friday for a preliminary examination of Johnson, who's accused of killing her daughter, Sutton Mosser, on Sept. 16—simply two days after her third birthday.
The grisly killing got here to mild after Johnson’s 17-year-old brother discovered a bag in the back of the home the household shared and seen the toddler’s foot protruding of it.
Based on Mstay.com, Eberline stated in court docket Friday that medication performed a big function in Johnson’s psychotic break. The distraught mom, who reportedly cried all through Friday’s court docket proceedings, informed the investigator that she didn’t bear in mind killing her personal daughter.
“She informed me that she didn’t bear in mind the specifics of what occurred on the time of what occurred to Sutton, that she was experiencing hallucinations as a consequence of heroin withdrawal and never sleeping for roughly two weeks,” Eberline stated.
Earlier than the alleged homicide, Johnson was at her mom’s condominium. As she walked residence, she handed out in a graveyard, in accordance with Eberline. When Johnson awoke and at last made it residence, she thought the TV was speaking to her and telling her to slay her daughter or die, the investigator stated.
“She was getting hallucinations from the TV that had instructed her to take her daughter’s life or they might kill her. It was SpongeBob who was saying this stuff on the TV. If she didn’t do what she did to her daughter they might kill her. She stated she was afraid for her life and he or she had misplaced her thoughts,” Eberline stated.
Johnson faces life in jail if convicted. She is at the moment being held with out bond, with a pretrial listening to scheduled for Feb. 28.