Mum throws 4-year old son into lake as offering

A mum has been charged with murd3r after allegedly throwing her four-year-old son into a lake “as an offering to God”

Ruth R Miller, 40, is also facing two counts of domestic violence and one of child endangerment, said to be in relation to allegedly driving a golf cart with three of her older children aboard into the lake.

Miller’s husband, Marcus J Miller, 45, had himself d!ed hours earlier after drowning in the same lake, as he was apparently attempting to swim to a sandbar in another attempt to demonstrate his faith in God.

It happened on Saturday, August 23 at Atwood Lake in Ohio, where emergency services dashed to find several people in distress. However, Miller’s older children; her twin 18-year-old sons and a daughter, aged 15, were not seriously injured.

The incident happened at Atwood Lake where the family were staying

Now, police have confirmed Miller told them she was on a religious mission.

Speaking at a press conference, Tuscarawas County Sheriff Orvis Campbell said the defendant told officers she threw her youngest child – little Vincen – into the lake as an “offering to God”.

Miller is now due to appear in court to face the charges. It’s not clear, though, if the mum has entered a plea or retained an attorney.

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