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PROUD PARENTS: IN THE NEWS
Meet Alexandra Tobias, the 22 year old mother who murdered her daughter for interrupting her game of Farmville. No, we’re not kidding, that is the actual reason this Proud Mother shook her baby to death. Thankfully for us, she met a judge that hated her as much as we do and she got one hell of a sentence! Keep reading for the full news story!
Courtesy of Jacksonville.com
By David Hunt
One day before she murdered her infant son with her bare hands in her Jacksonville home, Alexandra Tobias took a personality test on the Internet that cast a grim outlook in a sophomoric tone.
The quiz results, posted to her Facebook page, labeled her as bipolar with a passage that read: “Way to go, you crazy person. You are too much for any one person to handle, including yourself.”
The next morning, 3-month-old Dylan Lee Edmondson was dying of head injuries as investigators, doctors, Duval County jail inmates and even family began spotting a pattern of lies to cover up an ugly truth.
Tobias, 22, a Wolfson High School graduate who wanted to go to college and had a generally good reputation as a parent, had shaken the baby to death while playing interactive games on her Facebook page.
Circuit Judge Adrian G. Soud sentenced Tobias to 50 years in prison after hearing several hours of testimony Tuesday. Tobias cried at points, but was led to a fingerprinting station with a blank look on her face after Soud gave a scathing lecture from the bench.
“He who is the most defenseless among us was murdered by his own mommy. And why? Because he was crying during a game of FishVille or FarmVille or whatever was going on during Facebooking time that day,” the judge said.
The sentence was the highest end of a plea bargain negotiated in October as Tobias pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in Dylan’s death.
Her plea went viral as popular websites like Gawker and The Daily Beast picked up the story and CNN’s “Nancy Grace” show picked apart the case for nearly an hour.
To the baby’s father, E.J. Edmondson, that was one of the most disheartening parts of the ordeal.
“That is insulting. It wasn’t about Facebook. It was about my son,” he said outside the courtroom.
More disheartening, Edmondson said he did not know until he listened to forensic testimony Tuesday that his son was in pain for the final hours of his life.
Tobias told the judge she was suffering from postpartum depression, but wants to go back to the good person she was before the killing.
“I hate myself for what I did, but not for who I am,” she said.
Tobias’ friends and family described her as a fun-loving, albeit somewhat mischievous, child who grew into a respectable woman.
Life dealt her some tough knocks. She’d found her mother dead in 2008. She told a psychologist she’d been raped at a younger age.
Her plans to go to college were set back when she got pregnant. She and Edmondson were in an on-again, off-again relationship that became so intense both of them were arrested for domestic violence several weeks before the baby’s death.
Still, nobody close to Tobias could believe she would take her frustrations out on the baby.
Before Tuesday’s hearing, the Times-Union obtained case depositions and letters in Tobias’ handwriting that show how the young mother tried to socialize herself in jail as if she’d be just a temporary occupant. There was a point when she thought she’d beat the charges.
“She laughs and she colors. I mean, she’s got her coloring pencils and they sit around and they just – you know, it’s like they’re in a home for girls, you know. It’s fun time, and it’s not,” said Lois Hay, a fellow inmate who was deposed in the case by Assistant State Attorney Rich Mantei last March.
Hay said at one point Tobias told inmates she shook the baby and smashed his head off her computer monitor. But she also would change the story to blame the abuse on her boyfriend, his mother and her dog.
She later told a psychologist she blacked out to try to cover up her confession to police, but she was snared as prosecutors were given a recorded phone call she made from the jail calling it a lie.
“I had a son named Dylan Lee but he passed away on January 20, 2010!” reads a letter Tobias wrote to a male inmate she was trying to court romantically. Prosecutors intercepted it. “They are trying to charge me with my son’s death and child abuse. Now I don’t expect you to understand but I can’t really talk about it but I can tell you I’m in here for the wrong reasons.”
She wasn’t the only one in disbelief.
“She was a young mother. She was under a lot of stress, but I don’t see her doing anything malicious. She knows better,” Tobias’ sister, Elizabeth, told Mantei in a deposition last February.
Elizabeth Tobias showed Soud pictures of Tobias and pleaded for mercy during Tuesday’s hearing.
Prosecutors said Tobias called the baby’s father before she called 911 to report her son had stopped breathing. She’s hysterical in the recording as she tries to collect herself to follow the dispatcher’s instructions on mouth-to-mouth and chest compressions as the rescue squad is en route.
Defense lawyer Jan Abel asked Soud to review the 911 recording before he sentenced Tobias. He did, but Tobias’ crying during the call did not change the judge’s mind.
“It was to you he [Dylan] would turn to for food. It was you he’d turn to for comfort, for love, for help when he was sick,” Soud told Tobias. “When he turned to you and cried, you murdered him.”
A month before she killed her son, detectives said Tobias joined a Facebook advocacy group against baby-shaking.
Prosecutors zeroed in on the Facebook page when they realized it was the likely background of the baby’s death. Screen captures that have become part of the case file show Tobias used the social networking site often.
She labeled herself a Christian and a Republican and gave no specific reasons for being a fan of things like television’s “One Tree Hill” and Hollywood starlet Megan Fox.
Tobias kept a profile for Dylan as well. New Year’s Day postings showed he was 12 pounds and 22 inches tall.
Psychologist Stephen Bloomfield testified Tuesday that Tobias took Xanax, without a prescription, the morning of the baby’s death. He explained that the anti-anxiety drug can exaggerate downward mood swings for depressives.
Bloomfield said much of Tobias’ depression is rooted in her upbringing under a mother who was diagnosed as bipolar and who grappled with drug problems.
“She doesn’t seem sad and she doesn’t seem happy,” Bloomfield said.
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Move over, Casey, here’s another wonderful Florida Mom; why do we seem to grow these monsters?
Death is to good for her. Scum, she is scum.
Figures this would happen again in back woods ass Florida!
We need to invent a special kind of punishment for people like that. 50 years in prison isn’t strong enough.
BTW, the child was a boy, not a daughter as it states in the photo caption.
I swear to god that some people need to have reproductive organs need to be riped out at birth. This monster just proves my point!!
You’ll never see me in Florida. Seems like a bunch of monsters live there, white and black and every color in between.
what a waste of air. i hope she rots in jail.
What a disgusting excuse for a human being.
First off, fuck you all for hating on Florida. Sure we do have our share of inbreed hillbilly fucksticks and oodles of ignorant tornado bait running around but don’t assume we are all that way. Secondly, whatever happened to good old fashioned immediate and public corporal punishment. I think a good stoning or a draw and quartering would be rather appropriate for that low life hooker.
Why are you arguing that she is from Florida? I believe she is from the biggest country in the world! Facebook…
this is just so wrong.. its so sick that they let people like this breed… but yet if a person does not want kids if they are under 25-28 ( depending on the state they live in) they are not allowed to get a tubal litigation because according to doctors they “are too young to know what they want” , so you get these fuckheads who obviously don’t want kids, having them and abusing or killing them.. i think people should be psychologically tested for issues like this as they hit puberty and if they show mental disorders like this they should either be sterilized or put on mandatory birth control along with counseling. but that will of course never happen ( violating of human rights blah blah blah) and we end up with news papers full of stories of kids who got stuck being brought into the world only to suffer horribly.
this is so fucked up. i have a 6 yr old and an 11 mth old plus im pregnant. now i admmit when im playing a game and my 11 mth old cries its frustrating but i never have hit him or anything of the sort. fml i hate these people.
People like this make me wish Dexter Morgan was a real person.
pookie_bear_meow_damnit: That is not true about not being able to get your tubes tied til a certain age. It’s no law or anything. It’s all about personal beliefs of the doctor. You just have to go to a different doctor if the other won’t do it. I had mine done at age 23. I even know a girl who had down syndrome who had her tubes tied when she was a kid at request of her mother. People assume they can’t get them done because other people tell them that. But it’s just not true. It is true however, that it may take you awhile until you find a doctor who will want to do it to someone younger. My doctor had no problem doing it. I do want to make everyone aware though that they do not tell you the shitty things that happen after they are tied. Weight gain, mood swings, painful periods, etc. The doctors do not tell you that.
ROT IN JAIL BITCH
sauce….it is true in certain places you can not get your tubes tied until you reach a certain age..I never wanted to have children and when I turn’d 18 I try’d to get it done and was told by every doctor in the area that i had to be 21 or have had at least 3 kids already..and yes there is some side effects to having it done but what you post’d isn’t true..weight gain and mood swings…really??those are personal problem you experienced for your own reasons..and they do tell you that your periods can be more painful and you can get them more often and heavier then usual..AND on the subject of this I understand the hate for this girl I truly do,but as decent humans we shouldn’t stoop ta the level of name calling..I don’t think 50 years is enough for what she did and I think death is get’n off easy..She should spend the rest of her life in prison with no chance of parole..and hopefully she comes to the point that she realize that she took another humans life from them..but not only that but an innocent helpless baby, her innocent baby..she will never have the opportunity to watch him grow and smile and learn and play, she’ll never experience all the wonderful emotions that come with being a parent.and her son will never get to become the amazing man he would of been if it wasn’t for her..Hopefully she’ll come back to reality and that will eat at her until she die’s..And blaming a certain place or kind of person for shit like this is ignorant..It happens every where and all we can do is try to help the innocent survive the wicked..JUS SAY’N…
This is a perfect example of why we should have a firing squad to get rid of wastes of space like this.
She could get life and not get enough time. I hope she gets her skull bashed in in Prison. And I bet that she will. She will find a group of women in Prison who may try to KILL THE BABY KILLER.
And the fact that she isn’t remorseful for it, the fact that she was trying to hook up with another inmate and blame everybody else but herself for shaking her baby isn’t going to help her case.
Someone, either it be a guard, or a family member of an inmate, is going to send paperwork in on her. They may include a copy of the entire discovery and she will have to check out of Gen Pop. I promise that. She will spend the next 25 years in prison in Protective Custody. There are some crazy ass women in prison for murder of their old men who, as crazy as they are, wouldn’t harm a child.
She’s going to get what’s coming to her. So you guys keep that in mind, especially the ones who want to see some revenge carried out on her. She isn’t going to be able to stay in Gen Pop very long before she gets beat completely stupid….she might get killed.
Child killers, Child Rapists, Women Beaters, Women Rapists, and other similar offenders don’t get to enjoy ANY freedoms in prison. They have to check out of Gen Pop or risk dying.
Being Bi-Polar wasn’t this woman’s problem. I would hate to think that people would get the idea that is was why she did this. It does not make you kill your children, This woman had much bigger problems than being bi-polar.
Go Jami! A real life Dexter sure would be nice!
okay stories like this piss me off.. you get these psychos that pop babies out like nothing, and you get pple who cant have babies, that would do anything just to have a baby. i agree 50 yrs is nothing for this kind of crime.
This girl needs to be publicly horsewhipped, then dragged for half a mile through the Salt Flats. And then she should be involuntarily sterilized, so she can’t squeeze out any more doomed children. What a miserable narcissistic sociopathic excuse for a human being.
Wow florida you got tiger woods on his sex scandle casey anthony for 1st degree murder and now you got this chick for 2nd degree murder…wow…and people still call you the “sunshine” state…:P
Put the kid somewhere safe, and just go outside, in the other room, the garage or even around the block if you think you will hurt a child.
And Farmville is fucking stupid!!!
Really? A bullet in the head is cheaper than housing criminals. Murderers, depending on circumstances, all rapist and child molesters should die. They do not deserve to be protected housed fed or to share our oxygen and space. The resources wasted on these messed up human beings could be used to house our homeless feed our hungry educate our country heal our sick and take care of the elderly, people who deserve those resources. They should make lazy asses doin time who think it’s just 3 hots and a cot or time to sleep their life away, do manual physical labor 8 hours a day to better the world while they are in there. Bring the chain gang back! Rip lil dylan
She doesn’t deserve the air she is breathing. Shake her violently and smash her head into the cement. Let her die and suffer the same torture she did on that innocent child.
This article is a load of crap.
1) It’s not sure that she killed the kid BECAUSE he interrupted her game of FarmVille. We just know that she was playing FarmVille around the time that the baby was killed.
2) They act as if the fact that she took a test on Facebook that said she was bipolar was relevant! The person who made that test was probably some bored teenager!
3) They act as if the fact that she likes One Tree Hill and Megan Fox is relevant, and they also act as if she has to explain why she likes that show and that actress.
4) Even though killing a baby is horrible, she had taken pills that “can exaggerate downward mood swings for depressives” that same day and she had recently been in a huge fight with her boyfriend. I’m not saying that that justifies what she did, but it helps to show that she wasn’t in her right mind when she murdered her child, and therefore isn’t necessarily THAT much of a monster.
FACEBOOK?! SHE MURDERED HER CHILD OVER FACEBOOK?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Just remember hun, Karma’s a bitch…You’ll get what’s comin’ to ya.
I hope she is shaken in prison and she dies!!!!!!!!!!!
holy shit and we just moved into duval county, LOL.
This is absolutely ridiculous! What mother would murder her own child?! I don’t care if she had taken Xanax and just gotten into a fight with her ex, that gave her no right to do what she did!
she may be a heartless kid killer, but I gotta say “That’s Hot!!”