Brooklyn Mother Admits to Killing Son

A horrifying tragedy in Brooklyn: Sadier Jean Noel, who had jumped in front of a train on Monday as her 9 year old son's dead body was found in her apartment, admitted that "demons overtook her" and that she killed her son. Sadier Jean Noel said that son Knil was brooding about his birthday celebration from the day before - the family went to Junior's but Knil was upset an invited friend wasn't able to come. Noel told police that she reacted by smothering him with a pillow.

A birthday pizza party at Knil's private school had been planned for Monday, and when father Evans Joseph called Noel to ask how it was going, Noel responded, "It's not happening. There is no party. ... You're going to have to forgive me." Then she left the apartment. From the NY Times:

Ms. Noel said she then left her apartment on Brooklyn Avenue in Crown Heights, and took the subway to Chinatown in Manhattan with the intention of jumping off a bridge, the police said. But she changed her mind, they said, and returned to Brooklyn on the F train. She got off at the West Eighth Street-New York Aquarium stop in Coney Island, crossed to the northbound platform, and shortly before 5 p.m. jumped as a train approached, the police said.

Though seriously hurt with a broken leg and two severed fingers, Ms. Noel was conscious and urged rescuers to go to her home, saying she had done something terrible to her son, according to the police. Meanwhile, Knil’s father, Evans Joseph, 29, a construction worker, had already arrived at their home to find the boy lying on the couple’s bed and unresponsive, the police said.

Noel underwent a psychiatric evaluation and is under guard at Lutheran Hospital (the Times also reported that she had been "taking Prozac for depression and Ambien for insomnia"). The ME's office ruled the death a homicide, but Noel has been charged with murder, manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a minor according to the Daily News. There are no indications of any domestic disputes, but the Administration for Children's Services is investigating the death.

Joseph just told reporters, "I'm in pain right now, pain."

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By Jen Chung in News on November 15, 2006 9:15 AM

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Not Amused

If she did this due to a mental state then she should be locked up in a pysc ward . If it's provrn that she did it of full knowledge then she should be put to death .

Miquel

Oh, so that's how you come down from Prozac...

...now I can finally get some sleep, and probably save some money on a sitter from the looks of it.

Sad.

b

let her kill herself.

dude

Fucked up.

stonecold

This woman knew what she was doing. She was sane enough to chose her son's way of dying and her own. She went to the bridge, came back to the train platform, then instructed the officer to check on her son. No demons there.

She should go to jail and continue taking her Prozac for depression and Ambien for insomnia there. She is lost. If God exists then God is the only one that can help her. Maybe God can call off the demons. Why didn't she abandon her son while he was alive and kill herself? Self centered coward. Now her defense will be "the drugs made me do it."

ed_Extinct

life in prison. no parole.

Doctor Sues

A doctor is like a mechanic. If you go to them and tell them what you think the problem is, they will take your word over their own exmination and diagnosis. Sometimes they won't bother examining you nor your head. They think that most illnesses are in your head anyway. They just comply and give you what you ask for.

mh

Was the Prozac for depression and Ambien for insomnia self perscribed?

With all of the advertising on TV, it is no wonder more people are not bent or more psychotic from taking the drugs they see. If you listen closely to the commercials, they encourage you to "tell your doctor" about the drugs that they are advertising. It is strange how they stopped advertising liquor and cigarettes and TV and deemed it ok to advertise drugs.