A mother is suspected of burning alive her severely disabled two month old daughter. Suceli Ardon is alleged to have put her baby in a rubbish bag and doused it with petrol before setting it on fire. Hit the jump toread the rest of the story.
A mother is suspected of burning alive her severely disabled two month old daughter.
Suceli Ardon is alleged to have put her baby in a rubbish bag and doused it with petrol before setting it on fire.
The 26 year old had claimed her daughter was already dead from an accidental overdose of painkillers.
But a preliminary autopsy has revealed the baby was still alive when she was set on fire after smoke was found in her lungs.
Prosecutors in Reno, Nevada, said they expect to file murder charges once they receive the full autopsy report.
Ardon, a mother of three, was arrested after a woman walking her dog came across the charred remains of her daughter Brandy in March.
The two month old suffered from the rare Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome and was terminally ill.
The newborn had spent most of her early life in hospital and had been released from a hospice into the care of her 26 year old mother and her boyfriend Luis Martinez in March.
Ardon was supposed to administer morphine to her daughter to relieve her pain.
She claimed she gave her daughter too much and panicked after realising she was dead. Rather than tell authorities she decided to burn the body.
Police were able to identify Brandy by the surgical device placed in her abdomen that was used as a feeding tube.
When they interviewed Ardon, she confessed to setting her daughter on fire after claiming she was already dead after an overdose of morphine.
The baby had recently been released from a hospice and was terminally ill and not expected to survive for more than a few months due to her genetic disorder.
