Don’t Try this at Home

CHILHOWIE, Va. — A 14-year-old boy was charged with
involuntary manslaughter in the death of his 5-year-old half sister last
month in a coin-operated washing machine.

"He told his mother that night that he done it," the children’s
grandmother, Anna Billings, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Rebecca Hope Wagoner was found dead June 17 after her mother, Rebecca Billings
Wagoner, brought the children to the coin-operated laundry in this southwestern
Virginia town.

The mother stepped outside and when she returned, she found her 30-pound
daughter trapped inside the triple-load washer. The machine’s wash cycle
had begun.

from The
Washington Post