Addison Sioux Perdew sentenced to two decades for killing two-month newborn’ A 25-year-old mother in Minnesota will spend more than two decades behind bars after she admitted to brutally beating her newborn son to death, leaving the 2-month-old victim with multiple fractures to his skull, brain hemorrhages, lacerations to his liver, two collapsed lungs, 33 rib fractures, and bruising across “his entire head, torso, arms, and legs.”
Addison Sioux Perdew sentenced to two decades for killing two-month newborn
Hennepin County District Court Judge Tamara G. Garcia ordered Addison Sioux Perdew to serve a sentence of 261 months, just under 22 years, for the boy’s gruesome slaying, which came after weeks of other physical abuse at the hands of his mother.
Perdew pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder without intent while in the commission of a felony in her son’s death. In exchange for her plea, prosecutors dropped one count of second-degree murder with intent with which she had previously been charged.
Judge Garcia also credited Perdew with 533 days already served.
According to court documents, Minneapolis police responded to an emergency call at about 3 a.m. on Nov. 10, 2021, at an apartment complex in the 900 block of 22nd Avenue South. The caller told police that a baby had been “beat to death” in the apartment.
First responders found Perdew inside the apartment. She was on her knees vomiting when she allegedly told police that she had just swallowed an entire bottle of pills, the complaint said, without disclosing what kind of pills Perdew had ingested.
