An Indiana mother who admitted to smothering her baby to death while high on methamphetamines will walk free after the judge found her “not innocent,” but also “not guilty” this week.
Dacia Lacey, 32, told police that she used couch cushions to smother her two-month-old daughter, Alona, so that she could “get some sleep” in August 2022, the Daily Mail reported.
She initially told officers that it was a freak accident, but she eventually broke down in a police interview five months later and said she smothered Alona because she wouldn’t stop crying.
During the bench trial — deliberated on by just the judge, without a jury — Lacey’s 911 call was played in the courtroom: “Oh my god! Oh my God! My
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