Kristin Bass allegedly told the father of her children ‘I just sent our baby to God’ after shooting their 1-year-old daughter while her 2-year-old sister pleaded for help
Acelynn Moss was fatally shot on New Year’s Day(Image: FAMILY HANDOUT/KPLC)
A Louisiana mother is accused of fatally shooting her 1-year-old daughter in front of the girl’s 2-year-old sister before telling their dad, “I just sent our baby to God.”
Kristin Bass, 28, has been charged with first-degree murder. On New Year’s Day, the mother was at her home on Quelqueshue Street in Sulphur alongside her two daughters and their father, Bradley Moss.
Bradley reported hearing a boom in one of the rooms before running in and allegedly finding Bass holding a gun. The youngest girl, identified by Bradley as 1-year-old Acelynn Moss, had been shot while her 2-year-old sister pleaded for help, KPLC reports.
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In a tearful interview outside his home, Bradley told KPLC that his eldest daughter cried, “Help me, Daddy,” after the shooting.
He said Bass told him, “I just sent our baby to God.” The father said Bass suggested she wanted to shoot their older daughter too, telling him, “There it is, look, I sent her. Now I gotta get her.”
Bass allegedly told the girl’s father ‘I just sent our baby to God'(Image: Sulphur Police Department)
“I almost lost two babies. I lost one because her mama wanted to send her to God,” Bradley said.
Officers with the Sulphur Police Department responded to the home at around 8pm. Bass was arrested and booked into the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office.
The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services took custody of the 2-year-old girl. Bass’ bond has been set at $10 million. Police are still investigating the case.
Separate case in Michigan
The incident comes as haunting new interview footage showed a Michigan mom telling investigators “I didn’t think she was going to die” after she was arrested on charges of murder and first-degree child neglect and malnutrition after her young daughter died in 2018.
Tatiana Fusari and Seth Welch, the parents of 9-month-old Mary Welch, were both arrested and charged in the young girl’s death in August 2018. She weighed just eight pounds when she died, it was reported.
The investigator in the video, which was obtained by Law&Crime, can be heard saying, “Tatiana, I’m gonna be quite honest with you right now, okay? One parent to another. And I’m gonna try and control my emotions, alright? I’ve been to a child death investigator school, and I’ve seen photos and images of children that have been malnourished, and I’m telling you right now, this is the worst thing I’ve ever seen.”
Fusari simply replies, “Oh no, really?” And the investigator says, “Yes.” What ensues is a back-and-forth between the investigator and Fusari. The investigator asks, “At what point in this illness did you not think, ‘There’s a good chance she’s going to die?'”
Fusari’s response to that is chilling: “I didn’t think at all that she was gonna die. I didn’t…” The investigator interrupted her and said, “How could you not think that?” Fusari simply says, “Delusional.” Both parents were eventually convicted of murder and child abuse and were sentenced to life in prison.