She murdered her son...

I would absolutely contact the police.

Ditto. :frown:

Doesn't FB list what town they are in?

unfortunately facebook doesnt stand up in court as evidence.
my partner is a copper and he gets facebook things all the time, its doesnt stand up to anything
so sorry your in the middle of this. sucks!

but its the husband and he needs to tell the police, they can use it but they will need more evidence for anything.

Go to the police.
Have you tried searching for hers or the baby's name in google or something - put in obituary and her name and even her ex's name - it might take some looking, but if there was an obituary, then you can find it. That would give you a location - even if you report to your local authorities, doesn't always mean they will follow through, you may need to contact the authorities where she lives.

Good luck, and I agree, don't go through the father.

Wow. This is a criminal matter and needs to be investigated.

It still possible that it's SIDS case, but, for the health and welfare of the other child, it needs to come to light.

Facebook IS admissible as evidence in some states. It wouldn't hurt to try. Take a screen cap and forward the police where she was living at the time.

I would assume that an autopsy was performed on the baby. If there had been drugs in the child's system the mother would have been questioned or charged.

As far as I am aware they investigate heavily in a SIDS case to try and determine the cause of death.

I work in LE...contact the police. Whether FB can be used as evidence or not, it gives them a place to start. Police have their resources to investigate crimes, who what where when and why.

If anything, you did all you could do by letting the proper people know. What happens after is in their hands.

Good Luck!

call Steve wilkos!

STEVE!

Depends on the situation, but as this is something pretty serious, they will open a case based on something posted on Facebook. I know that they will (at least in Colorado) because an arrest warrant was issued for my ex-boyfriend purely based on pictures that were posted on his Facebook page. When his case went to court the pictures were used as evidence in the case although they did have other evidence by then as well. And yes, he was convicted, and it all started because of Facebook.

Thanks for the advice everyone. I think I will print it out and take it in. The worst that can happen is they tell me there is nothing they can do, but at least I'll know I tried.

Depends on the situation, but as this is something pretty serious, they will open a case based on something posted on Facebook. I know that they will (at least in Colorado) because an arrest warrant was issued for my ex-boyfriend purely based on pictures that were posted on his Facebook page. When his case went to court the pictures were used as evidence in the case although they did have other evidence by then as well. And yes, he was convicted, and it all started because of Facebook.

Also wanted to add to my original post ^^^ that in certain types of cases (and I am 99.9% sure that child welfare cases would qualify) they are supposed to open an investigation if they suspect a crime was committed. They do not have to have proof that a crime was committed, just reason to believe that one was committed. I think that your 'friends' post would give them reason to believe that at the very least child abuse/endangerment was going on.

In my ex-boyfriends case, when the officer came to arrest him (he wasn't home at the time) I was told that someone had reported the pictures on his page (I never found out who) and that the pictures gave them reason to believe that a crime had been committed. I was told that in that type of case they only needed reason to believe a crime was committed, and that the pictures from his page gave them reason to believe that. The pictures as well as a Facebook message he sent admitting to committing the crime were both admitted as evidence in court.

Yes, I would definitely print the page though. My ex deleted the pictures when he found out about the police looking for him, but they had already printed copies. He also thought that something from Facebook wouldn't be admissible in court and that was how he was going to fight it, but he was wrong, obviously.

I hope this helps. This all happened about 6 months ago, so I happen to know first had about Facebook and the legal system.

I have a "friend" whose baby recently (no more then 6 months ago) died. She told me they didnt know what happened but suspected SIDS. Well I just seen a post on facebook from over a week ago (another friend of mine pointed it out to me- i had missed it previously) where she ADMITS to giving her children (she had two) sleeping aids and drop them off with another women who was on drugs, so she (my "friend") could go sleep around/cheat on her husband.

I don't know what to do/say! I sent a message to her husband telling him I am so sorry for what has happened, and asking if he has went to the police with the post she made, where she admits to drugging her kids. (He hasn't replied yet)

Her husband has their oldest boy. (Husband and my "friend" are split up- pending divorce). He's military and I'm unsure where exactly he (or she) lives now.

What do I do? Can I print the post out and take it to the police? Will they even do anything? I know my "friend" and her husband don't live in my state- so I don't know if the police here can even do anything. And since I don't know where they live at now, I can't call the police there!

I just feel so guilty after reading that post! Those poor babies! It makes my heart hurt!

Of course you call the police.

You can call your own police department and they will get the information to the proper people. Please do not forget that even if the sleep aids were not a factor in the infant's death, she is endangering her other child by drugging him and then leaving him with God-Knows-who and possibly alone.

I'm so sorry. How awful!

I really don't think this is the place for something of this nature especially categorizing it under "chit-chat, fun, and games." It also sounds like a lot of "he said/she said" especially if your getting your information off of Facebook from a friend of a friend. Going to search for obituaries? I think you need to contact the police and move on. It really isn't your place to be contacting the husband and in my opinion could possible complicate matters in the long run. I commend you for taking the upper hand to assure justice is served but move along after that. This sounds like a dramatic situation and you should be thankful you aren't involved any further.