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Police: Mom cut baby girl’s throat

Posted: Feb 08, 2012 4:48 AM CST
Updated: Feb 09, 2012 11:52 AM CST
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Deputies in Camden, MO, arrested Bradie Simpson for cutting her baby girl’s throat. (Source: KYTV/CNN)

CAMDENTON, MO (KYTV/CNN) – A baby in Missouri is in critical condition after her throat was slit by her mother.

Deputies in Camden County responded to the 911 call from Bradie Simpson’s adult son, saying his mother and 9-month-old sister were missing. When deputies arrived at Simpson’s home, they found blood on a bed and a bloodied knife in the bedroom.

“They immediately went outside and started searching for the baby and the mother,” Sheriff Dwight Franklin said.

Three and half hours later and after searching several acres of woods, officers found the mother and baby lying on the ground. The baby girl was covered in her own blood.

“The baby raised its head, indicating it was still alive,” Franklin said. “A deputy immediately snatched it up, applied pressure to it, covered it up and ran back to the ambulance with it.”

The little girl went through emergency surgery and is still in critical condition.

“It’s a miracle it’s alive,” Franklin said. “I think God had something to do with that.”

Simpson is charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action.

In the probable cause statement, deputies learned that Simpson told First Baptist Church of Camdenton pastor, Rev. Bob Aubuchon, last October to hold her daughter because “she was possessed and feared she might kill her.”

“She more or less just tossed her baby into my arms and said, ‘Tie me down, tie me up’ and said ‘Possession, possession,'” Aubuchon said.

Aubuchon said Simpson then threw herself against the wall, yelled for a priest and finally explained what she meant.

“Then she kind of hit her chest a couple times and said, ‘I’m being possessed; I’m being demon possessed,’ and about that time, she put her hand over her mouth and wouldn’t say anything else,” Aubuchon said.

Aubuchon recalls Simpson actually wrote on a piece of paper saying do not let me harm the baby. He prayed with her and quoted scriptures. But when she snatched the baby back and tried to leave, the church called 911.

Simpson’s baby was then taken by the Division of Family Services, but had since been returned.

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MEMPHIS, TN –
(WMC-TV) – Jemar Lambert is a cemetery owner at the center of a criminal investigation after he allegedly buried bodies on land that he didn’t own.

Lambert is charged with two counts of theft of property.

The Action News 5 Investigators discovered that Voner Matlock was buried in the wrong grave at Galilee Memorial Gardens, a cemetery Lambert owns.

Action News 5 first met Lambert in July 2011 when Voner Matlock’s grave site was not immediately marked and her mother couldn’t find her on a later visit.

A subsequent exhumation located the body which is not related to his Friday arrest on a theft charge.

Lambert has been involved in an ongoing civil dispute with cemetery neighbors since October 2001 when a surveyor testified in a sworn deposition that he found at least 75 graves on the neighbors’ property.

“Because some of the ground is sunken and/or bare dirt, more graves may be on N.I.M’s property than appears on the survey plat,” the surveyor testified. “The cemetery uses low, flat headstones and does not appear to always place a headstone out at the same time a person is buried.”

On October 26, 2004, a chancery court judge ordered Galilee to stop burying people on the neighbor’s property.

But according to court records, Lambert admitted to between 20 and 25 recent burials in the “paradise” section of the cemetery on the neighbor’s property at a minimum cost of $995 apiece.

“These efforts on behalf of Jemar Lambert who knowingly sold property to decedent’s families, not belonging to himself, for the use of burial plots constitutes theft of property,” investigators wrote in their report.

But defense attorney Coleman Garrett disagrees.

“I was under the impression that’s going to be cleared up in civil court,” he said. “So why we’re here, I’ve yet to figure that out myself.”

If convicted, Lambert faces between three and fifteen years in prison.

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