A young mother is accused of chopping off her newborn baby’s head in a horrific murder.
Deasia Watkins is alleged to have decapitated her three-month-old daughter Janiyah just months after the tot was born in December.
The 20-year-old mother was arrested on an aggravated murder charge Monday.
The arrest came after Cincinnati police said they found the body of the young child inside the home she shared with her mother.
When quizzed over the cause of the child’s death, police would only say it was “homicidal violence”.
Watkins was taken by police to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center for mental evaluation.
Jimmie Graham, a neighbour, said: "It was a lot of commotion going on out here this morning.
"They had the crime tape up, and I figured when the crime tape was up, somebody got hurt or killed or something.
"She must have been out of her mind.
"I heard she cut the baby's head off.”
After news of the shocking death broke, dozens of family members were seen filing in and out of the house.
Dr Lakshmi Sammarco, Hamilton County Coroner, said: "We're going to go over the evidence that we have.
"We're going to go over the evidence that we have, and try and make sense of this murder which, seems to us, is very senseless."
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