[SSRI-Research] Killer Zoloft: Mother kills baby, then herself

[Guest guest]

> JustSayNo

> Sun, 4 Jul 2004 18:23:50 -0700 (PDT)

> [sSRI-Research] Killer Zoloft: Mother

> kills baby, then herself

>

> Sun, 4 Jul 2004 20:48:08 -0400

>

> Mother kills baby, then herself

>

> Thursday, July 01, 2004

>

> By Ronald Leir

>

> Jersey Journal staff writer

>

> Officials are still awaiting autopsy results in

> connection with last week's

> murder/suicide in Bayonne involving Emiri Padron,

> who police say smothered

> her 10-month-old daughter with a stuffed animal

> before stabbing herself in

> her uptown Kennedy Boulevard apartment.

>

> Police listed the baby's name as Hanna Victoria

> Padron, but an uncle of the

> little girl said her name was Lana Grace Padron.

>

> Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said the

> name Hanna appears on the

> baby's birth certificate but that Lana was used as a

> nickname.

>

> DeFazio said investigators determined Padron, 24,

> stabbed herself twice on

> June 22, plunging a carving knife with an 8-inch

> blade into her chest after

> smothering her daughter with a foot-long stuffed toy

> animal, a pink piglet,

> as the baby lay in her crib.

>

> Police said the bodies were discovered by Eduardo

> Padron, the woman's

> husband, when he returned from working the night

> shift at a security detail

> in Woodbridge. An emotionally overcome Padron was

> taken to Bayonne Medical

> Center for observation and later left with family

> members.

>

> DeFazio said there was no indication the child had

> been beaten or otherwise

> physically harmed prior to the smothering, and added

> Eduardo Padron had

> nothing to do with the deaths.

>

> Investigators were told by Eduardo Padron that his

> wife had been under the

> care of a psychiatrist and was taking prescription

> medication. DeFazio said

> police found an empty bottle of Zoloft, an

> antidepressant, in the apartment

> and one Zoloft pill on the floor.

>

> While no notes were found at the couple's

> first-floor apartment at Boulevard

> Gardens, on Kennedy Boulevard between 49th and 50th

> streets, DeFazio said

> that with the consent of Eduardo Padron,

> investigators removed computer hard

> drives from the apartment to determine if Emiri

> Padron had written any

> electronic messages before the murder/suicide.

>

> " We can't estimate time of death until after the

> autopsy is completed, "

> DeFazio said. He also noted the official cause of

> death for the mother and

> child won't be known until the autopsy by the state

> Regional Medical

> Examiner's Office is completed.

>

> Even hardened law enforcement veterans were shaken

> by the tragedy in the

> Kennedy Boulevard apartment, DeFazio said.

>

> " One of my investigators told me that the baby

> looked like a beautiful

> doll, " he said. " I think it takes a little bit out

> of everybody.

>

> " An act of this kind is difficult to fathom when a

> biological parent kills a

> young child. We can only imagine she was not in her

> right mind. "

>

> Bayonne Police Director Mark Smith said: " It's a

> tragedy for the entire

> family. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the

> father. "

>

> DeFazio said that Bayonne police were sent to the

> three-story, six-family

> building - one of a cluster of multifamily buildings

> that comprise the neat,

> landscaped rental complex - at 1:20 a.m. after

> receiving a 911 call from

> Eduardo Padron, who had just arrived home from his

> security job in

> Woodbridge.

>

> At the time he made the call, Padron did not yet

> realize that his daughter

> was also dead, DeFazio said.

>

> When Bayonne police arrived several minutes later,

> DeFazio said they found

> the lifeless body of Emiri Padron upright in a chair

> in the couple's

> bedroom, with the carving knife, smeared in blood,

> lying nearby on the

> floor.

>

> The baby was in a crib in the bedroom, her face

> covered by the stuffed

> animal, DeFazio said.

>

> An official pronouncement of death for the mother

> and baby was made at 3:30

> a.m. by Dr. Junaid Shaikh, an assistant medical

> examiner from the state

> regional office in Newark.

>

> After talking briefly with police, a distraught

> Eduardo Padron was taken to

> Bayonne Medical Center for observation and was later

> released.

>

> DeFazio said Padron is staying with relatives for

> now.

>

> " We're still numb, we're in shock, " said a family

> member, who asked that his

> name not be used.

>

> " It's a shock to all of us. We don't know why she

> did this and (Eduardo)

> doesn't know why, either. We're dumbfounded. There's

> no rhyme or reason for

> it. "

>

> The family member said that Emiri, who was born and

> raised in Japan but was

> educated in the United States, met Eduardo at a

> Christian retreat in

> Colorado about two years ago and they were soon

> married.

>

>

http://nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-2/108869117374550.xml

>