Police in New Jersey have arrested Breanna Beacham of Willingboro after she allegedly murdered her own mother. The details of this developing story are still coming to the public in bits and pieces, but according to arresting documents, the 32-year-old has been charged in association with the murder -- which took place on Monday. Fox News 29 reports that police responded to a residence in Willingboro on a call that an assault was in progress. When they arrived, it was already too late. Fifty-seven-year-old Kim Beacham-Hanson was found unresponsive at the scene. She had been bludgeoned to death, and her daughter was immediately taken in to police custody. Breanna Beacham has been charged with first-degree murder, possession of a weapon for unlawful purpose and unlawful possession of a weapon -- all three felony charges. At this time, the motive for the murder is unknown.
A New York mom is the focus of attention this week after she reportedly ran over and killed her 18-month-old daughter with an SUV in her own driveway. Authorities are calling the incident a tragic accident, and the mother is reportedly not facing any charges related to the incident — but why not?
According to People Magazine, the unnamed mother removed her 18-month-old child from her carseat and allowed her to play in the yard while she unpacked groceries in the driveway. Instead of checking on her daughter to see where she was, or even bothering to put her indoors, the New York mom got back in her SUV and attempted to pull the vehicle into her garage. That’s when she felt the SUV run over something, and she heard the impact. When she got out of the SUV to see what happened, she realized she had run completely over her infant daughter, who she says ran in front of the SUV as she pulled forward.
There’s no doubt that this is an unthinkable tragedy — and something that the mother of the deceased infant will have to live with for the rest of her life. However, just because this has been ruled an accident doesn’t mean the mother doesn’t have responsibility for what happened and how it happened. This was a preventable accident, and the mother’s lack of attention to a child that’s not even two-years-old is what led to her death. This wasn’t an accident that was entirely out of the mother’s hands. It was an accident that was facilitated entirely by the mother being negligent.
Again, this child was not even two-years-old, and the New York mom involved with the situation did nothing to secure the child or even check on her before operating a vehicle in the same space where she was allowing the child to play unsupervised. This child would still be alive even if the mother had put her inside without any adult supervision. Even leaving the child in her carseat until she was done unloading groceries would have been a better choice than the one she made.
It could be agreed that the loss of her child is punishment enough for the mother — but what lesson has she learned other than that her negligence can lead to a death that she won’t even be held accountable for? In the future when she has more kids and continues to be negligent, what then? The tremendous lack of foresight exercised by the mother in this incident is troubling, and it spells disaster for any other kids in her care.
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