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Mom charged with trying to kill child
Posted: 12.05.2012 at 12:15 PM
KTVO Newsdesk
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Kristina Kennedy-Maroney is charged with two counts of attempted murder
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APPANOOSE COUNTY, IOWA -- A former southeast Iowa woman, accused of trying to kill her baby, not once, but twice, has learned when she will go on trial.

Kristina Kennedy-Maroney, 23, now of Hicksville, Ohio, is charged with two counts of attempted murder and two counts of child endangerment. Kennedy-Maroney will stand trial beginning January 2 in Appanoose County.

During the first attempt on the child, Kennedy-Maroney allegedly held the 5-month-old girl’s face underwater for three seconds in the bath tub. The second attempt was when she allegedly held a pillow over the girl’s face for about ten seconds.

The victim is now 3 years of age.

Kennedy-Maroney is being held in the Appanoose County jail under $60,000 cash only bond.


Previous stories....

Mom accused of trying to kill baby returns to Centerville  -  Thursday, October 18, 2012 
Police say when the woman lived in Centerville in 2009, she tried to kill her own baby twice.

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