This is just horrifying…
A 33-year-old mother admitted to drowning her daughter because she needed “time alone,” per police reports. The troubling story comes out of Nashville, Tennessee, where authorities say Brandi Elliott (pictured above) decided the only way to get her daughter to leave her alone was to kill her in cold blood by drowning her in a nearby creek.
According to local outlet WKRN, Brandi told cops she was getting fed up when her daughter Piper was allegedly not giving her any “time alone” so she decided to take her to Drakes Creek in Hendersonville. There, she reportedly confessed to police, she held the 7-year-old under the water in a shallow part of the greenway “like a largemouth bass” until bubbles emerged on the surface. The mother claimed she only realized what she’d done after it was too late to revive the little girl with CPR.
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Just awful! That poor baby…
In court Tuesday, the mother of one told the judge she struggled with postpartum depression after Piper was born but wasn’t currently under any sort of medical care. She did admit she’d “lost it” in the past:
“When my daughter was two, I kind of lost it like I did this time. I had postpartum depression and they gave me medicine for it. I was having a really bad time with sleeping.”
Meanwhile, her husband and the father of the deceased, Jon Elliot, is reportedly a disabled veteran. The accused killer broke down into tears when she told the court. Family friend Kip Ziemer has set up a GoFundMe for the grieving father which told an even more chilling story. The description revealed Piper had only seen her father, who’s currently in the hospital, hours before she was murdered:
” … Jon Elliot, military veteran, his 7 year old daughter was killed yesterday, July 13 2024, he will be needing as many donations as possible for the funeral arrangements, and basic everyday needs, he only get a small disability check each month, he has been hospitalized the last week in the Critical Care Unit, and just got moved to a regular hospital room yesterday, his wife and daughter seen him yesterday and Piper (his daughter) brought her daddy a bunch of coloring book pictures she colored for him to hang up on the wall of his hospital room, a couple hours later she was killed, the mother was arrested on serious charges …”
So heartbreaking. If you’d like to donate, you can learn more HERE.
Brandi currently works at McDonald’s, according to the court, and has had no previous run-ins with the law. Her attorney as well as the state both agreed they didn’t want her mentally evaluated. They’re looking at giving her the death penalty if convicted of her first-degree murder charges.
This is just gut-wrenching. R.I.P. Piper…
[Image via Brandi Elliott/Facebook]
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