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Woman Kills Her 3-Year-Old Daughter After Hearing Voices From TV

 Prior to her 3-year-old daughter's death, a young mother said she heard voices from her television asking her to hurt her baby.

Justine Johnson, a 22-year-old mother, pleaded not guilty to one count of felony murder and one count of first-degree child abuse. According to the Prosecutors' Office of Iosco County, Michigan. She is being held incommunicado.

According to a police report released to CNN by prosecutors, Johnson stated that she was watching the cartoon "SpongeBob SquarePants" when she heard voices via the television, and that the television threatened to kill her if she did not harm her daughter, Sutton Mosser.

According to a CPS official, Johnson claimed she was suffering from heroin withdrawal and had used cocaine on the day she allegedly murdered Sutton, who had just turned three days before her death.

Iosco County Prosecutor James A. Bacarella told CNN, "My office plans to proceed to trial so that a jury may make a finding of guilt." "This is a terrible tragedy, and I can't image how devastated the family of this child must be." "My daughter loved her child," Johnson's mother, Alisa Johnson, told CNN when reached for comment. "The people are presenting her as someone she is not."

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