Amanda Smith (33) drowned her son, attacked police with ax, may have mental health issues

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A Trafalgar mother with possible mental problems told police she drowned her 3-year-old son, and officers believe she may have then been seeking suicide by cop.

Officers were called to the woman’s apartment at Trafalgar Pointe Apartments around 9 p.m. Monday. Police officials say they were familiar with the apartment and the mother, 33-year-old Amanda Smith, as she’s made around 200 calls to Johnson County authorities. Police described those calls as "crazy."

About three dozens of those calls have been made in the past three weeks. “The child is in a better place,” Smith reportedly told police dispatchers when she called 911 Monday night. A later call from Smith’s mother told authorities that Smith said she had done something to her son that couldn’t be undone, Johnson County Sheriff’s Office officials said.

Smith was being held Tuesday at the Johnson County Jail without bond on a charge of murder and a charge of attempted murder for swinging an ax at a police officer, officials say.

After police responded to the apartment Monday night, they found the boy in a back bedroom on a bed. Smith reportedly was hiding in a bathroom and came out swinging an ax at officers. Just last week, police officers asked Smith’s mother to take away an ax they said she’d been sleeping with on a regular basis. Smith’s mother did, but apparently her daughter had another.

In her apartment, police found evidence of a woman who they say likely suffers from mental health issues. Every door had a padlock. Photos of children — including her now deceased 3-year-old boy — were turned upside down. Tuesday morning, it wasn’t immediately clear who had custody of the boy, but one woman who says she’s friends with the boy’s father told WISH-TV there have been custody disputes in court.

There will be an autopsy for the boy, but authorities didn’t know when. Police officials say their preliminary investigation leads them to believe the boy did drown.
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[teknansen]

MAY have mental health issues?

[kenziekay]

crazy?! no kidding!!!!

[rachy]

Mother 'drowned her son, aged 3, in the bath to stop his father from winning custody'
Amanda Smith killed her son, Jacob, to prevent a custody change
Smith also faces attempted murder charge for swinging axe at police officer
Father blames court system for allowing 'schizophrenic' Smith unsupervised access to son



A mother with a history of drug abuse drowned her son in the bath to make sure his father didn?t win a custody battle over him.

Amanda Smith, 33, killed 3-year-old Jacob, called 911 and then sprung out of a closet swinging an axe at a police officer who arrived at her home in Indianapolis.

The Johnson County Sheriff's Department received two 911 calls shortly after 9 p.m., one from Smith stating that her son was dead and another from Smith's mother, 'advising that her daughter told her that she had done something to her child that could not be undone.'

Amanda Smith and Robert Crim were in the middle of a custody battle over their son and a court hearing was set for March 14 to determine whether Jacob would continue to live with his maternal grandmother, as Amanda Smith wanted, or to live with his father.

Jacob, who would have celebrated his 4th birthday on March 7, had been living with his grandmother, Wanda Smith, since August 2010 after child welfare workers intervened because of the parents' drug problems.

However, late last year Mr Crim indicated he had overcome his drug problems and wanted to gain custody of his son.

Mr Crim, who was no longer in a relationship with Jacob?s mother, filed documents seeking to terminate Wanda Smith's guardianship.

Johnson County judge, Mark Loyd, had warned Amanda Smith last Thursday that her say in her son's custody hinged on better cooperation with authorities.

Although Wanda Smith had been granted custody of the boy, Amanda Smith was allowed one night a week unsupervised visits.

Crim, who was in a six-year relationship with Amanda Smith, said Smith suffered from schizophrenia and is blaming the court system for his son?s death.

He said Smith had become angry in recent months after losing custody of her two other children and because he had filed for custody of Jacob.

"She stated in the letter to the court that she'd do anything to keep him away from me, and the court blindly ignored that," he said. "She told me that she hears voices and sometimes she acted on them," Crim told RTV6.

Despite Smith's long history of problems, Loyd said, he had never heard anything that would indicate she was prone to anger or violence.

"The child is still in a case in my court," the judge said, "and under those circumstances I feel terribly responsible."

As well as her drug problems, Smith was known to authorities for her frequent calls to 911. She had called 911 more than 200 times over the past few years, including 11 the past weekend, police said.

She now faces a preliminary murder charge and a charge of attempted murder for rushing at a Trafalgar police officer with an axe.

Smith pleaded guilty to felony child neglect in December 2009 after a police officer went to her home and found that she and Crim, 42, Bargersville, had been smoking crack all night while caring for Jacob, then a year old.


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[Lisa Petrie]

This bitch is crazy and I would have just taken her out if I was a cop we don't need another crazy kid killing person in this world sittin gin jail just to get out in 20yrs to kill another kid .....

[Nocturnity]

I'm familiar with that county. It's beyond podunk. Ugh. RIP kiddo.

[Peavey]

How could such a beautiful little child have been born from such a beastly woman?

[bowieluva]

Someone had a busy day.