Six-year-old girl who froze to death outside Minnesota home identified .....

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[Morgana]

FULL TITLE: Six-year-old girl who froze to death outside Minnesota home identified as her cousin is arrested for manslaughter

Police have arrested a Minnesota woman in connection to the death of her 6-year-old cousin, who was found frozen outside her home last month.

Rachel Downer, 22, was taken into custody Friday and charged with second-0degree manslaughter and felony neglect of a child.

Downer's cousin Mercedes Mayfield was discovered unconscious in the entrance to an apartment building in Bemidji on the morning of February 27 after spending hours in temperatures that fell to nearly 30 degrees-below-zero with windchill of -40.

[GeronL]

Downer was aptly named!

[Navy Patriot]

Rachel Downer, Obama's daughter

[Paladin2]

Whatta downer.

News "story" is certainly not.

[Vendome]

Rope, neck, deep hole.....drop .....

[Secret Agent Man]

wow, that’s a real real hard 22.

[ansel12]

“Temperatures in the area reached 27-below-zero, with wind chills dropping to minus-40 degrees, according to local weather observations provided by police.

With wind chills of 40 below, experts say frostbite can set in in less than 30 minutes.”

[coloradan]

There are some other people who should go to jail for the same sort of crime: http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/03/school-forces-half-naked-sopping-wet-student-to-stand-outside-frostbite-results/ Oh, but I guess since they are screwl teachers and/or administrators, everything’s good.

[latina4dubya]

so many details are missing from this report... was Downer baby sitting? did she lock the little girl out? whose apartment was it? was it where the little girl lived, or was it where Downer lived, or both? was the little girl going to go to school from that apartment? did the mom come to pick her up or did she come home? were the younger siblings at the apartment? who put the coat, mittens, hat on the child?

poor baby girl :(

[GeronL]

Bump

[TigersEye]

who put the coat, mittens, hat on the child?

Emergency services personnel.

[montanajoe]

Don’t care for the kid in the womb don’t care for the kid after. Pathetic and something I will never never understand..

[lepton]

Just smh. Some people.

That said, why was the dead six year old girl arrested, and was the home really identified as her cousin?

[Patriot Babe]

Wow she looks like the girl; who can’t read cursive, who testify in Saint Trayvon trial.

[ImaGraftedBranch]

You are knit-picking about journalistic standards, I see. Bravo.

[frostbit]

A better news link:

http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/content/updated-bemidji-woman-arrested-death-6-year-old

[Jeff Chandler]

That’s a strange looking turtleneck sweater.

[Amberdawn]

Poor little thing. RIP.

[jjsheridan5]

Rope, neck, deep hole.....drop .....

Have you seen the picture? Make that an extra long rope, and the hole better be both wide and deep.

[Mark17]

Downer's cousin Mercedes Mayfield was discovered unconscious in the entrance to an apartment building in Bemidji on the morning of February 27

I have been to Bemidji many times, but not in the winter.