Photo of Tasha Tennin, 36, charged with first-degree murder while committing child abuse
A black Minnesota woman is facing new charges in the 2018 death of one her children, an 8-year-old boy who was found “ice cold” after being locked in a garage overnight, authorities said.
A grand jury last week indicted Tasha Tennin, 36, with first-degree murder while committing child abuse and unintentional second-degree murder while committing a felony, according to the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office.
Police said the Brooklyn Park woman called them around 7:30 a.m. that day to report that her son was unresponsive.
Police and paramedics who responded to the scene described his body as “ice cold” and “very cold, as if he had been outside,” the attorney’s office said in a news release Friday.
The boy was pronounced dead a short time later.
Tennin told police at the time that her son was sick and without an appetite when he came home from school the day before, according to the release. But school officials told investigators that he seemed fine and had been playing and jumping on a trampoline, authorities said.
Police also noticed that the boy appeared to have urinated in his pajamas and a sergeant found a puddle of frozen liquid in an attached garage, prosecutors said.
But it was only months later that investigators learned more about what had happened — when the victim’s siblings began sharing more details with their foster families. One of them said the boy got into trouble the day before his death and that their mom told him to sit outside in the garage, authorities said. Tennin then locked the garage and the boy was “left outside for the night,” according to the release.
The suspect is being held on $2 million bond, jail records show. She was scheduled to appear in court Monday afternoon.
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[–] numscul54 ago
That black life didn't matter or did it ? O yeah i for got he should have been a walking piece of shit, Only then then would his life mattered enough to qualify to burn loot and riot and attack the working part of society