© AP Photo/Newport, Ore., Police DepartmentJillian McCabe is seen in an undated photo provided by the Newport, Ore., Police Department. McCabe, who said she threw her 6-year-old son off the Yaquina Bay Bridge on the Oregon coast Monday, Nov. 3, 2014, was arrested on murder and manslaughter charges after the boy's body was found in the bay, police said.
Nearly a year ago Jillian McCabe was posting cheery videos on YouTube of her 6-year-old son, London, holding a stuffed toy lion while tossing coins in a fountain to make a wish, and her husband, Matt, lying in a hospital bed talking about his sudden struggle to walk and even talk.
As darkness was falling Monday, according to a police affidavit, Jillian McCabe, 34, parked her car at the north end of the picturesque Yaquina Bay Bridge in Newport, Ore., took her son in her arms, carried him to the middle of the span, and threw him to his death in the water below.
Then she dialed 911 on her cellphone.
"I just threw my son over the Yaquina Bay Bridge," McCabe told the dispatcher, according to a probable cause affidavit filed by police Tuesday.
She described her son, London Grey McCabe, and the clothes he was wearing, saying he was in the water and gone. Later that night, a body was reported in the water at a bayside resort about a mile from the bridge, and police said they confirmed it was the kindergartener. Attorneys appointed to represent her did not return calls for comment.
"It's a great tragedy," said the boy's great aunt, Tanya McCabe.
Comment: Holtzclaw must live in an alternate reality to even be considering going back to work. That kind of aloof behavior is similar to how many psychopaths have reacted to being asked about their deadly crimes against innocent people. Does he actually believe that 9 unrelated women are all conspiring against him? To most logical people, the evidence is overwhelming and he would be best served by cooperating. But psychopaths aren't logical, so he'll fight the charges and probably end up getting a much harsher sentence as a result, which, if the allegations are true, is to the benefit of the public.