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A younger mom is being accused of murdering her toddler son to be able to pledge her loyalty to her boyfriend.
Twenty 12 months previous Esperanza Moreno Harding (above, left) bought into sizzling water final week after her son was reported lacking. Police in Minneapolis had been despatched to an area youngsters’s hospital as a result of the younger mom mentioned her son had died whereas being handled within the facility. However, they had been shocked to seek out that the hospital had no file of her son — nor did they’ve any demise file for him. This led police down a rabbit gap to uncover one thing far more disturbing…
According to a prison criticism obtained by Law&Crime, cops interviewed Harding. She admitted that her son didn’t die within the hospital, “but in fact, died at a hotel in Bloomington on February 28, 2024.” She mentioned her son had drowned within the bathtub, and she or he positioned his physique in a backpack and threw it within the trash.
Awful…
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It wasn’t till native legislation enforcement in Bloomington did a second interview with Harding did she give extra particulars — allegedly admitting she murdered her toddler son. Per authorized docs, police mentioned she “had been dating a man named Edwin Trudeau who did not like her child and that he wanted her to give [the boy] up for adoption.” Because she supposedly didn’t wish to give the child up for adoption, however additionally wished to maintain her man round, she allegedly killed him:
“[She] wanted her to prove that [Trudeau] was her top priority.”
If that wasn’t horrifying sufficient, the prison criticism went into extra element. It revealed that the child allegedly turned upset whereas Harding was taking a shower, which set her off. She admitted to texting her boyfriend through the incident, scripting this at round 5 p.m.:
“he doing to much rn, I cant f**king sleep, Im trying tho, Im about to do something bad, Please answer me, He going to no be here much longer … I cant he going die, Im done, If u took the time to fill a bath that I cant use he can use it, Im sorry.”
WTF?? Sickening!!
She ultimately despatched Trudeau a textual content, based on the criticism, declaring the toddler was useless. To that, he allegedly replied that it was “ok” and “don’t be” sorry. She allegedly additionally took a photograph of her son floating face down within the water. When Harding texted that she was trying CPR on the boy, her boyfriend mentioned:
“just stop trying … its ok ima help. your making things harder stop we are a team we do this.”
The mom admitted to feeling like a “monster” and requested her lover for recommendation on get away with the homicide, per the uncovered texts. He then reportedly came visiting to the resort. There, Trudeau allegedly tried CPR, however ultimately gave up, and so they “had sex in the other room while [the child] lay dead on the bathroom floor”. Another textual content from him learn:
“If you go down, I go down no matter what. It is always going to be us, Bonnie and Clyde.”
It’s unbelievable to say this after allegedly murdering a child! So, so devastating and disgusting.
Harding has been charged with second-degree homicide in relation to the demise of the toddler, whereas her boyfriend has been charged with aiding an offender. They’re each presently nonetheless in police custody and are awaiting trial.
If you’ve got honest trigger to suspect youngster abuse, name the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Child or 1-800-422-4453, or go to www.childhelp.org.
[Image via Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office/Esperanza Moreno Harding/Facebook]