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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Madeline Sherratt

Mom let her baby suffocate after her boyfriend ‘made him sleep face down to stop him crying’

A Nebraska mom allowed her baby to suffocate to death after her boyfriend allegedly flipped the child on his face to stop him crying, a court heard.

‘Happy go-lucky’ toddler Andrew Dean Zitel was three months and 22 days old when he died last summer. The boy’s mother Ashlen Zitel, 28, had come home on 15 August to find him not breathing so tried CPR before calling 911.

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