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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 18 OctOber 2017

Police: Woman who feared deportation drowned 2 boys

By KASEY JONES chief said Tuesday. ference. An officer visited to call. gree murder and was be-
Associated Press Kula Pelima, a native of her home and said local Pelima called 911 again ing held on $2 million bond.
A woman drowned her in- Liberia who has lived in authorities were not going about 8:30 a.m. and said It’s not clear if she has a
fant son and his 5-year-old the U.S. for two decades, to arrest her. The officer she had drowned her lawyer yet.
half brother in a bathtub called 911 about 3:45 a.m. saw the older boy during son, 4-month-old Solomon Immigration and Customs
hours after she called po- Monday, fearing that her the visit and he was awake Epelle, and 5-year-old Alex Enforcement couldn’t im-
lice and told them she was visa had lapsed, Wilming- and well, the chief said. The Epelle, authorities said. mediately provide any
worried about being de- ton Police Chief Robert officer gave Pelima an im- Pelima, 30, was charged information on Pelima’s
ported, a Delaware police Tracy said at a news con- migration hotline number with two counts of first-de- status.q
Nebraska man accused of helping Florida girlfriend kill self

By GRANT SCHULTE prove whether or not Wile- didn’t think she had a regu-
Associated Press mon-Sullivan actually had lar doctor, but that she had
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A the disease, but noted that been diagnosed and treat-
Nebraska man accused of Stubbendieck never ac- ed in emergency rooms.
helping his Florida girlfriend companied her to medical The investigation “revealed
kill herself after she told him appointments and didn’t Stubbendieck and Ali-
she had cancer appears to contact authorities while cia Wilemon-Sullivan had
have taken her story at face they were planning or car- been arranging for Alicia
value and didn’t push her rying out her death. to come to Nebraska to
to seek medical treatment “He didn’t bother to say, ‘If die” and they were “talk-
or mental-health counsel- she does have cancer, why ing about her death over
ing, authorities said Tues- don’t we do something text messages” for several
day. Lt. Larry Burke of the about it,’” Burke said. “If weeks, authorities said in
Cass County sheriff’s office he’s truly in love with her, as court records.
said Matthew J. Stubbendi- he says, there are times he Wilemon-Sullivan left her
eck was “pretty convincing could have sought help. He children with a friend and
in his interviews” that he be- could have gotten her to a said she was going on va-
lieved his girlfriend, 38-year- mental health profession- cation to Key West, the
old Alicia Wilemon-Sullivan, al.” Burke said Wilemon- This photo shows Matthew J. Stubbendieck, of Weeping Water, records said. Authorities
Neb., who faces an assisted suicide charge after authorities say
of Orange City, Florida, Sullivan claimed to have he helped his girlfriend, Alicia Wilemon-Sullivan of Orange City, say she bought a one-way
had stage-four cancer in cancer back when she Florida., kill herself in the woods near Weeping Water in early American Airlines ticket to
her lymph nodes. and Stubbendieck were liv- August. Nebraska. Kenny Johnson,
Nebraska authorities now ing in Florida. Stubbendieck (Case County (Neb.) Jail via AP) the friend who watched
suspect Wilemon-Sullivan moved to Florida about The couple arranged for and concluded that cuts over her children, said Wi-
didn’t have cancer, based three years ago but re- Wilemon-Sullivan to fly to on her forearms and wrists lemon-Sullivan texted him
on an autopsy of her de- turned to his native Nebras- Nebraska from her home appeared to be self-inflict- on July 31 that she would
composed body that ka after losing his job, he near Orlando to kill herself. ed. Wilemon-Sullivan also be away until Aug. 3. John-
found no tumors. Wilemon- said. Authorities said Stub- Stubbendieck believed his had alcohol, painkillers and son said he met her at the
Sullivan killed herself in a bendieck reported that girlfriend had cancer in the cold medicine in her sys- airport, and she gave him
wooded area near Weep- Wilemon-Sullivan had killed lymph nodes of her neck, tem, it found. $200 and her truck keys.
ing Water, Nebraska, on herself and led them to her armpit and stomach, ac- Stubbendieck told authori- “She loved her kids very
Aug. 1, with help from the body on Aug. 5 in a wood- cording to court records. ties that he had never ac- much and everything, but I
41-year-old Stubbendieck, ed area near his hometown Authorities say the cause companied his girlfriend could tell there was a weird
who faces a felony assisted of Weeping Water, which is of death was inconclusive, of 1 ½ years to medical vibe coming from her,” said
suicide charge. about 25 miles (40 kilome- but the autopsy found no appointments, according Johnson, of Orange City,
Burke said authorities can’t ters) southwest of Omaha. sign of blunt force trauma to the records. He said he Florida.q

325-pound woman charged with killing girl by sitting on her

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A toward a child, The Pensac- told deputies she sat on De- When Posey got up, Der- Grace Smith called Posey,
325-pound (150-kilogram) ola News Journal reported. ricka Lindsay as discipline icka wasn’t breathing. Au- who is her niece, to her
Florida woman is charged The Escambia County Sher- “for being out of control.” thorities said Posey called house to help with disciplin-
with killing her 9-year-old iff’s Office report identified During the punishment, 911 and started CPR on the ing the girl, according to
cousin by sitting on the Posey as the girl’s cousin. Dericka told Posey and child. the report. She told investi-
child as punishment. Paramedics and deputies two other adult relatives, The arrest report said gators that Posey hit the girl
Veronica Green Posey, 64, responded to the family’s who are identified in the Grace Joan Smith, 69, and with a ruler and metal pipe
was arrested and charged Pensacola home following report as the girl’s parents, James Edmund Smith, are before the child ran to an
with homicide and cruelty a 911 call Saturday. Posey that she couldn’t breathe. charged with child neglect. armchair.q