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CLARK COUNTY, Mo. ? A northeast Missouri mother is facing a felony charge following the suicide of her young daughter.
Annie Small, 39, of Gorin, Missouri, formerly of Wyaconda, Missouri, is now charged with abuse or neglect of a child resulting in death.
Clark County Prosecutor April Wilson filed the charge Friday after an investigation into the New Year's Day death of Small's 12-year-old daughter.
Authorities say the girl took her life the same day Small had shot and killed her daughter's dog, which had been injured in a fight.
The girl had told her mom she didn't want her to shoot the dog. The woman then returned to her job.
Later that day, Small's son texted that his sister was not doing OK. About an hour-and-a-half later, the son called Small to tell her the girl had taken her life.
According to court documents, Small told the lead investigator that her daughter would not have ended her life if Small had not killed her dog.
Court papers state the investigator also found a handwritten notation in a diary belonging to the victim that read, ?plz help me plz plz help" [sic} in addition to handwritten messages on the ceiling of the little girl's room that stated, "I hate life" and ?I am not loved."
Small also told the investigator that on the day before the girl took her life she had told her mother she was thinking of harming herself.
Small said she offered to take her daughter to a doctor, but the girl said she didn't want to go.
Small is being held in the Clark County Jail on $100,000 cash-only bond.