Amatulah McLaughlin, The Five-Year-Old Pushed Down The Stairs By Her Mother
GoFundMeAmatulah McLaughlin was just five years old when she died.
The last several hours of Amatulah McLaughlin’s young life were like something out of a horror movie. This five-year-old died in a gruesome Halloween murder at the hands of her mother after being taunted about the Boogey Man and getting pushed down the stairs.
According to People, police were called to the Parkesburg, Pennsylvania home that McLaughlin shared with her mother, Ciara Robinson, and younger brother, on Halloween night in 2018. Though the five-year-old was already dead, there was no question about what had happened to her.
Daily Local News reports that Robinson admitted to multiple people that she’d pushed McLaughlin down the basement stairs.
Chester County Sheriff’s OfficeCiara Robinson later pleaded guilty to killing her daughter.
“I knocked [the victim] out… She won’t wake up… I am going to jail,” Robinson told a friend after pushing McLaughlin down the stairs according to People. While in a holding cell, she also shouted: “I wish I never pushed her down the [expletive] steps… I shouldn’t have pushed her.”
When formally interviewed, however, Robinson’s story changed slightly. According to the Daily Local News, Robinson admitted to hitting and slapping McLaughlin and threatening to put her in the basement with the “Boogey Man.” But she claimed that the five-year-old had fallen down the steps accidentally.
However, investigators noticed that McLaughlin’s body bore the marks of significant, long-term abuse. People reports that the five-year-old had bruises, scars, puncture wounds, and strike marks covering her legs, arms, and back. Indeed, Robinson admitted that she’d been abusing her daughter for about a year, and she later pleaded guilty to killing her.
“This little girl was severely abused, culminating in her death,” Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said in a statement reported by People. “No child should have to live like this. Our hearts are broken by the death of an innocent child.”
