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Detectives Say Mom Stabbed Toddler To Kill The Demons
NEW PORT RICHEY – They found Jeremiah Oshinkanlu on a bed inside a cramped apartment in a working-class neighborhood, his 25-month-old body ravaged by stab wounds.
The walls, furniture and floors in every room were splattered with blood.
Earlier in the day, Jeremiah’s father, Abiodun Oshinkanlu, had called the boy’s extended family, concerned because nobody was answering the phone at Jeremiah’s home.
Aaron Warren, the boy’s uncle, found the toddler in the master bedroom, in a pool of blood. He rolled the body over, only to find that Jeremiah was dead.
The child’s mother, Jessica Warren, was in the living room, crying and bleeding.
Minutes later, New Port Richey police and paramedics converged on the grisly scene inside the beige triplex, at 5411 Maple St., and began questioning the young mother.
What happened here?
What did you do?
“I was trying to kill the demons,” they quoted her as saying.
On Friday, detectives were still piecing together what happened, but said they think Warren stabbed the boy and then tried to kill herself by slashing her arms and legs.
“This was a horrible tragedy,” said police Lt. Jeffery Harrington. “Words simply cannot convey what we found inside that apartment.”
Warren still was being treated at Community Hospital of New Port Richey, just blocks away from her apartment complex, and is under constant police observation.
When Warren is stable enough to be released from the hospital, police expect to arrest her, Harrington said. She could be facing a first-degree murder charge.
“We still have many unanswered questions about this incident,” he said.
Relatives who gathered Friday morning at the home of Jeremiah’s maternal grandmother said they were too distraught to talk when a reporter knocked on the door.
They, too, were searching for answers.
“We’re just trying to hold our family together right now,” said Aaron Warren, Jessica’s brother.
While she has a history of attempting suicide, detectives said there was little to indicate Warren was capable of committing an act of violence against her child.
“It’s a shock to everyone,” Detective Kenneth Petrillo said. “I don’t think anyone foresaw something like this.”
Warren has lived in New Port Richey for several years, and records show she worked for a while as a nursing assistant at Tandem Health Care, a Bayonet Point nursing home.
That’s where she met Abiodun Oshinkanlu, who was a nursing assistant there, too.
Scant details were available about their relationship, and police wouldn’t say whether they were married.
A police report from December 2004 indicates the pair lived together in a house at 5442 Poinsettia Drive. Officers went to the residence after getting a complaint that the couple was arguing. Police said no arrests were made.
Thursday wasn’t the first time Warren tried to commit suicide, police records show.
In July 2004, New Port Richey officers responded to a sexual battery complaint at the Green Key Beach Motel on U.S. 19 and found her alone in a room.
She had self-inflicted puncture wounds on her arms and legs.
When police questioned her, Warren told them she was depressed and had tried to kill herself. They took her into protective custody under the Baker Act and brought her to a hospital.
Ten months later, she gave birth to Jeremiah.
WFLA Reporter Lynn Carson contributed to this report.
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