A 21-year-old mother who didn't learn from her mistakes is charged with involuntary manslaughter for causing her baby's death by sleeping with him… four years after her firstborn suffered the same fate.
“Oh no, I did it again,” Aaliyah Lykins, an American from Indiana, allegedly whispered as first responders tried to resuscitate her two-week-old baby last October, according to the affidavit obtained by local media and obtained by the “ New York Post reported on Sunday.
On October 9, emergency services were called to a private home in Muncie, Indiana, where the young mother had just found her baby Addilynn Lykins “limp and with no signs of breathing” after falling asleep while nursing her. Fox 59 reportedly reported.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), new parents are not recommended to sleep in the same bed as their baby.
However, according to court documents, the woman was “fully aware of the danger of sleeping with her baby,” even though she had previously caused the death of her seven-week-old boy Aiden Lykins under similar circumstances in 2020. according to American media.
If the previous accident hadn't resulted in charges, even though the young mother had told police she “knew it was wrong” and that she “shouldn't have put Aiden in bed with her,” she would have this time have been officially charged with their actions.
However, according to Star Press, this is not the first time the woman has been in trouble with the law, as she is awaiting trial on charges of assault causing bodily harm to a pregnant woman, assault and battery on a domestic worker with a deadly weapon, and assault causing bodily harm can result in serious bodily injury.