violently beat his newborn baby sister to death. it happened after 62-year- old kathleen steele locked her three children inside of a hot van for nearly 40 minutes. ashley yore is live in front of the jail where steele will appear later today. ashley? reporter: james, she will be making her first appearance on video later today. this is steele. she is facing an aggravated manslaughter charge. the details of what happened to her 13-day-old daughter are disturbing. the pinellas county sheriff says steele left her children all locked in a hot van without air conditioning for nearly 40 minutes while she was inside of a st. pete cell phone store. the infant started crying uncontrollably. investigators say 6-year-old frankie lost his temper and ceiling of the van. the 6-year-old removed baby kathleen from the car seat and began flipping her multiple times back and forth. he said he was slamming the baby, slamming her, and kept slamming her. reporter: when steele got back, 6
the mother of the boy cused of killing his little sister in court this afternoon. an update happening right now, in the courtroom just a short time ago as the judge ing a high bond for the bout mother. the judge saying it may not be enough, why is that? reporter: kathleen steele was a financial advisor for raymond james. she may be wealthy enough to post bail on this really high $100,000 judge set these additional conditions including being banned from interacting with any children including her own. she is accused of locking all three children and a hot van earlier this week while she spent over half an hour in a cell phone repair shop in pinellas county. during that time her six-year- old boy allegedly beat his . yesterday the sheriff described kathleen steele as emotionless when told of her little baby s death. today after the hearing her attorney disputed that account. i found her to be certainly devastated by this. you can only imagine the shock and difficult time i
has been tough day as they remove the brain in their yards and street. some trees are just too big to move right away.e just a really big tree get through the roof the housese. it s all piled up in the. many people have to deal with all of the damagege. big old trees damaged in lakewood thursday. she says th tree was scheduled to be cut down and few weeks but nature beat them to it. large tree limbs crashing through the roof of the home. all the way through the rafters and poked through twice and the ceilingsan is come down the tree goes all the way across the backyardhe and not down part of the fence . first energy was busy reconnecting homes to the power grid but it is so work they had to be cautious and hav been very busy. > but everyone will get the power restored quickly. less yard, there are power lines als a-year-old nissan sentra. it looks like the top of the tree was simply sawed-off . justin pumpkinstein says he s glad the tree fell where did. kigot a fami
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