{"id":359161,"date":"2026-07-31T18:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/359161\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T18:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:55:10","slug":"florida-mother-arrested-in-infant-sons-death-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/359161\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida mother arrested in infant son’s death, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida mother admits to throwing 6-month-old, watching TikTok before calling 911, police say<\/p>\n

\"AllisonLAKELAND, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

A mother has been arrested in connection with the death of her 6-month-old son, according to the Lakeland Police Department.<\/p>\n

Police responded to reports of an unresponsive infant June 29. Upon arrival, officers transported the child to a hospital. <\/p>\n

The infant was later pronounced dead, and medical examiners ruled the cause of death to be a homicide.<\/p>\n

During the first round of the investigation, police said the mother, 23-year-old Tatiana Norman, lied to detectives about what happened to her son. <\/p>\n

During a second interview with investigators, Norman revealed information that was inconsistent with her first claims. <\/p>\n

After being confronted, Norman stated that her son had sustained multiple injuries on June 29. <\/p>\n

She explained that she was overwhelmed and fatigued from caring for her two children that day.<\/p>\n

Norman claimed that one of the injuries occurred around 9 a.m. while she was reaching for a remote control and accidentally dropped the infant on the floor, causing the baby to strike his head.<\/p>\n

Instead of contacting medical professionals, Norman searched for information online about her son\u2019s injuries and decided to monitor him at home.<\/p>\n

Later that day, Norman said her 1-year-old climbed into the infant\u2019s bassinet, causing it to tip over. As a result, the baby landed face-first on the floor.<\/p>\n

Norman also admitted she became further overwhelmed as both children were crying, and decided to throw the infant from a standing position into a playpen.<\/p>\n

During the time frame of the injuries, police said Norman watched two TikTok videos and visited up to 30 entries on different pornographic sites on her phone.<\/p>\n

Medical officials said if the infant had received immediate care after the injuries, the outcome could have been different, according to police.<\/p>\n

Police said Norman has been charged with aggravated child abuse, a crime that carries a potential sentence of up to 30 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida mother admits to throwing 6-month-old, watching TikTok before calling 911, police say LAKELAND, Fla. \u2014 A mother…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[146415,19709,2353,166,5507,29167,28,30,44770,29,146414,4211,667,49675,136061,1224,132,3709],"class_list":["post-359161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-23-year-old-tatiana-norman","tag-baby","tag-child","tag-day","tag-death","tag-floor","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-mother","tag-florida-news","tag-infant-son","tag-information","tag-investigation","tag-multiple-injury","tag-norman","tag-officer","tag-police","tag-tiktok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}