Grandma charged in toddler granddaughter’s smothering death in Mahanoy City PA:
Too close to home.. This taking place in the heart of the formerly great coal region of Pennsylvania. And it’s disgusting to its core..
A grandmother, watching her granddaughter, kills her.. the story has been picked up globally by the ASSOCIATED PRESS due to the shocking nature of the crime. This is the AP dispatch:
A northeastern Pennsylvania grandmother is charged in the suffocation death of her 14-month-old granddaughter.
Pietrina Hoffman, of Mahanoy City, was arraigned Friday in Schuylkill County.
Police accuse 52-year-old Hoffman of smothering Navaeh Doyle on Jan. 10 while she was babysitting the toddler.
An autopsy determined the girl died from asphyxia by smothering. She was sent to county prison without bail pending a preliminary hearing Feb. 25.
Awful.. Just awful.
I get tremendous rage when innocence is broken. I get angry to my very core when some adult, an adult who is supposed to be responsible and loving, does nothing of the kind and instead murders and destroys the beauty of life.
