Disturbing bodycam footage shows Amish mother Ruth Miller eerily telling police she gave her 4-year-old son “to God” and that the “end is close” after drowning him in an Ohio lake.
Tuscarawas County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a 911 call on Aug. 23 at the Atwood Lake campgrounds regarding a golf cart that had been driven into the water with a woman and three children.
Body cam footage obtained by Court TV shows Miller, 40, at the scene being escorted by her two adult sons towards a parking lot, where she tells two deputies that she’s not “crazy” for throwing her son in the lake.
“I threw him in the lake and I gave him to God,” a detached-sounding Miller admits to the officers.
“He’s sweet, and I love him. But, I gave him to God. People are going to tell me I am crazy. But He is