A 29-year-old Boulder woman jailed in the killing of her 2-month-old son had postpartum mental health problems, according to an arrest affidavit.
Boulder authorities have arrested and jailed Anna Englund for investigation of first-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death.
Englund told a Boulder police officer that she took her son a couple of blocks away from their home at 902 Portland Place on Saturday while the baby’s father was in the bathroom and strangled him “because I didn’t want him to suffer in life like I have,” the affidavit stated. She told the officer “she was worried about all of the things that could happen” to her baby “because the world was ‘crazy’.
She stopped in front of a house around noon and believed no one saw her and “‘strangled’ with her hands” while the infant was in her lap, it said. She then drove to a place she believed to be in Denver looking unsuccessfully for a building she could jump off of to kill herself and went to a Burger King for a hamburger before returning to Boulder, it said.
The infant’s father on Saturday called the police requesting a welfare check due to Englund’s post-partum mental issues, saying she had taken their son in her car. Police went to the home around 4:46 p.m., according to the affidavit.According to the arrest affidavit, Englund told the police officer she initially tried to strangle her baby by putting six pieces of duct tape over his eyes, nose, and mouth and placing a rope around his neck.
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