A woman has been arrested and to remain in jail on $500.000 bond after stabbed her 10-year-old son in the chest and beat him to death with a rock while he was in bed because she thought he 'would be better off in heaven', police have said.
Officers were called to Lindsey Nicole Blansett's home in Wellington, Kansas around 11.45pm on Sunday and when they arrived, her son Caleb was dead. She was taken into custody.
Police believe the 33-year-old mother attacked her son because she thought his life would be full of suffering in the world the Wellington Daily News reported.
She 'decided the boy would be better off in heaven than to face the world’s problems', according to a criminal complaint in Sumner County.
So after her son went to bed, she grabbed a knife and a rock and attacked him with both, killing him. An autopsy to determine his exact cause of death is underway.
Caleb's nine-year-old sister was also in the home at the time he was killed but she was unharmed and is now with other relatives.
Blansett has been booked into the Sumner County Jail and has been charged with first-degree murder. Authorities say she unlawfully, intentionally and with premeditation killed her son.
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