Jacksonville mom shakes baby for interrupting FarmVille, pleads guilty to murder
Posted: October 27, 2010 - 11:13am

Tobias
By David Hunt


A Jacksonville mother charged with shaking her baby to death has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.

Alexandra V. Tobias, 22, was arrested after the January death of 3-month-old Dylan Lee Edmondson. She told investigators she became angry because the baby was crying while she was playing a computer game called FarmVille on the Facebook social-networking website.

Tobias entered her plea Wednesday before Circuit Judge Adrian G. Soud. A second-degree murder charge is punishable by up to life in prison.

Prosecutor Richard Mantei said Tobias' sentence could be less because of state guidelines that call for 25 to 50 years. Soud offered no promises on what he'll order during a sentencing hearing scheduled for December.

Outside the courtroom, Mantei said Tobias' plea will help avoid the family reliving the tragedy during a jury trial.

Tobias told investigators that she shook the baby, smoked a cigarette to compose herself and then shook him again. She said the baby may have hit his head during the shaking.

Source:
http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2010-10-27/story/jacksonville-mom-shakes-baby-interrupting-farmville-pleads-guilty-murder

My mother lives in Jacksonville. Maybe I should make a trip down there, commit a minor infraction just so I can wind up in the cell face to face with this bitch.

NY...you'll probably have to wait in a long line. The article says she's a smoker. What do you think the odds are that she smoked while she was pregnant?

I read about this the other day...the report I read didn't give her age but you know, killing your baby for interrupting your video game, you KNOW she had to be a young psycho.

That is just sick.

That really is sick. That poor baby.

They need to do the same thing to her, shake her, hit her head a few times on a brick wall and shake her some more!

Tony Marino wrote:

They need to do the same thing to her, shake her, hit her head a few times on a brick wall and shake her some more!

Not surprised at all.