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A kentucky The woman who fell asleep after taking drugs and her three-month-old baby drowned in her bathtub says she wants to visit his grave before she is sentenced next month.
Amber Winstead, 36, pleaded guilty murder in connection with the death of his son, Ki’ari Rene Winstead, last Friday on New Year’s Day, according to court records cited by WHAS11.
Police were called to the Motel 6 on Airport Hotel Boulevard in Louisville around 4:30 a.m. on January 1. They reached there and found that the child had drowned in the tub. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Authorities alleged that Winstead had consumed narcotics before getting into the bathtub with her child that day. She told investigators that she had fallen asleep, and when someone woke her up hours later, the infant was submerged in water and unresponsive. wdrb,
At Friday’s hearing, Winstead’s attorney Bryce Dean told the court that his client was about to end a drug treatment program, and he asked for her to be kept under house arrest until sentencing.
“When Ms. Winstead was arrested in this case, she was at her child’s funeral,” Dean said. wolves,
“She never attended her child’s funeral. She was arrested in the parking lot. She wants to visit her child’s grave. She just wants a little closure before she goes to DOC.”
Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Trish Morris said she would consider the request.
Morris said, “Let me take this under submission and see if I can’t find some way we can get you off because, like the Commonwealth, I have obvious sympathy for you.” “The situation all around is sad.”
Winstead is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 11. As part of his plea agreement, the persistent felony offender charge was dropped, WDRB said. WHAS reported that prosecutors had requested a seven-year prison sentence.
Ki’ari’s obituary He has been described as a “little angel” whose “bubbly personality and infectious happiness lights up every room he enters.”
“He was a precious storehouse of happiness, always calm and content and bringing peace to those around him,” the obituary said. “He never cried, and his gentle, happy demeanor made him a perfect little boy, who was loved by his family.”