2-Year-Old Found Dead in Booster Seat Covered in Vomit and Feces
Last Thursday, Rebecca Louise Gussage-Johnston, 24, from Florida, was charged with first-degree murder while engaged in aggravated child abuse. This was in connection to her unlawfully restraining her two-year-old son in a booster seat overnight and for around fifteen hours as punishment for “acting out”, as reported by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. The criminal information filed on June 6 stated that Gussage-Johnston had “willfully tortured, maliciously punished, or willfully and unlawfully caged or did …