November 14th 2023.
Angel Lynn Marie Varner, a 20-year-old mother from Amarillo, Texas, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with murder in the death of her seven-month-old son Jackson Knight Blackmon.
Varner admitted to police that she had thrown her infant son on a bed and swaddled him with two blankets when he had cried earlier that morning. She also allegedly applied pressure to his abdomen until he stopped crying, before throwing him on the floor in the bedroom. First responders who arrived at the duplex found that Jackson had already passed away, and his autopsy revealed the cause of death to be blunt force trauma.
On the same day she was arrested, Varner started a GoFundMe page for her son's funeral and to buy cremation jewelry. She wrote on the page that her ‘poor baby’ was ‘no longer with us’ but they would soon find out what happened. Varner also wanted to purchase an urn and jewelry with his ashes so that he could always be with them.
These recent events come after a string of gruesome crimes by mothers. In August, a mother was sentenced to 50 years in jail for drowning her newborn baby in a bathtub in an attempt to hide methamphetamine in her system. And in September, a mother was jailed for waterboarding her baby and putting him in a freezer.
Varner is being held at Potter County Jail with her bond set at $250,000. The GoFundMe page she launched has been taken down, with the company stating that ‘the organizer did not receive any of the funds raised’. This tragedy is yet another reminder of how cruel and senseless violence can be.
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