Seventeen-year-old Nga Truong is being held without bail in the death of her year-old son, Khyle, whom she confessed to suffocating to death with a teddy bear. Now prosecutors are wondering whether she was also responsible for the death of an infant brother under remarkably similar circumstances eight years ago.
Her defense attorney says the Worcester, Massachusetts, teen is just a scared kid who gave a false confession after being questioned without an attorney or parent present. But the cops say she opened up about Khyle's death after they brought up the 2000 death of her baby brother, Hien, then three months old. Although that baby's death was never investigated for foul play -- and was blamed on SIDS -- Truong, who had been left alone to babysit her younger siblings at age eight, was the person who found her brother's body, attracting suspicion that Khyle's death wasn't the first time she'd smothered a baby boy in his crib.
This is a sad, sad story all around. According to the Boston Globe, Truong is currently pregnant again, and lives with her 31-year-old mother and several siblings, ranging from infant to teen. Although Massachusetts social services say they have been involved with the family, they cannot release more details. It seems clear that babies are not safe in that house, though.
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