Christian Clark killed her son

Mother Sends Children's Father Disturbing Messages As She Kills Son And Attempts To Kill 2-year-old Daughter 

A McKeesport, Pennsylvania woman charged in the death of her 17-month-old son was arguing with the boy's father in a cellphone text exchange and is accused of sending him a video of the lifeless boy's body and allegedly admitted smothering him, according to an Allegheny County police complaint. 

 

Christian Clark, 21, is facing charges of criminal homicide in the boy's death and attempted homicide for attempting to smother her 2-year-old daughter.

 

According to the complaint, Allegheny County police responded to an apartment at Hi View Gardens on Tuesday night after Clark called 911. When officers arrived, they found the toddler and Clark inside the apartment.

 

Police transported the toddler to UPMC McKeesport Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:40 p.m. Tuesday. 

 

Clark told a detective at the hospital that her son was a healthy child with no known medical conditions. She said she lived alone with her 17-month-old son and 2-year-old daughter. 

 

Clark told police that she found the toddler lying unresponsive on an air mattress in the living room of the apartment a short time before she called 911. She said she was alone in the apartment with the children.

 

According to the complaint, Clark said that the boy's father had left for work around 2:30 p.m. and had not returned to the apartment. Clark said she'd been arguing with the boy's father earlier in the day because Clark accused the man of cheating on her. 

 

Clark agreed to go to Allegheny County police headquarters to speak with detectives. Detectives reviewed text messages that spanned two-and-a-half hours between Clark and the boy's father. According to the complaint, the text messages from Clark to the boy's father "turn to animus and threats against the children. She was advised the messages included messages stating that she had killed her son and some video messages showed her son's lifeless body."

 

"She was sending them before the act, during the act and following the act as well,” Allegheny County Police Superintendent Coleman McDonough said.

 

While reviewing the messages with Clark she admitted that she had "pressed her son's face into the bedding of the air mattress" for approximately one minute, according to the complaint. The complaint further stated that Clark admitted she was responsible for the toddler's death. 

 

Text messages from Clark to the boy's father state that Clark also tried to smother her 2-year-old daughter. Police said the girl was released from the hospital Wednesday to a family member.

 

According to the complaint, Clark's two final texts read, "I'm literally going to jail you have a funeral to plan” and "I really snapped this time.”

 

Officials said the investigation is ongoing, and Clark remains in the Allegheny County Jail pending arraignment.