Georgia judge allows mother charged over baby’s death to take children trick-or-treating
A Georgia judge has allowed Deja Coleman, who is under house arrest while facing charges over her baby son’s death, to take her two surviving children trick-or-treating. The ruling permits her to visit all four buildings in the Rainbow Village housing community where she lives under GPS monitoring.
Coleman is accused of leaving one-year-old Daniel in her car for nearly nine hours while she worked a hospital shift on 29 July. He was found unresponsive in the vehicle and died; Coleman faces charges of second-degree murder and cruelty to children. Her lawyer says severe sleep deprivation, compounded by Daniel’s teething and the pressures of caring for three children while working, caused an unintentional lapse, and has urged prosecutors to drop the charges.
In short
- Judge permits Coleman to take her two children trick-or-treating.
- She remains under house arrest and GPS monitoring.
- Her lawyer attributes Daniel’s death to severe sleep deprivation.
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Originally published by Daily Mail as “Sleep-deprived single mother accused of murdering baby in hot car will be allowed to take her surviving children trick or treating”.