An Ohio Amish mother who claimed God told her to throw her 4-year-old son into a lake has been charged with murder in the boy’s drowning.
Ruth Miller, 40, was under care at a mental health facility when authorities charged her on Wednesday with two counts of aggravated murder , two counts of domestic violence and one count of endangering children.
Both murder charges are related to her son Vincen because of Miller’s “prior calculation and design” and the fact that the boy was under 13, the Tuscarawas County Prosecutor’s Office told Cleveland station WKYC.
The domestic violence and endangerment charges are connected to her three older kids, who Miller allegedly directed to perform tasks in the lake to “prove their worthiness to God.”
Vincen’s death happened on Saturday at Atwood La