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She Insisted She Didn’t Drown Her Daughter, But Her Son Had Something Different To Say…
“Mama dunked my sister.”
[Esto, Florida]
7-year-old Adrianna Hutto lived in a small town called Esto, Florida with her mother, Amanda Lewis (29), and her younger brother, 6-year-old, AJ Hutto.
If you asked Amanda to explain her daughter’s personality, she would say Adrianna was a huge ball of overwhelming, chaotic energy. “She was a happy child. She was very outgoing, very hyper. She looked like me, she act like me, she was headstrong like me. She was like my walking shadow”, Amanda explained. Similar to many young children, Adrianna loved captivating someone’s attention, but her level of energy may have been slightly higher than other children around her age because of her ADHD. Adrianna found herself at the end of Amanda’s loud yelling far more often than her brother. In fact, Amanda admitted that she didn’t bond with Adrianna as much as she did with her boy.
AJ was a more timid and quiet child, managing to avoid negative scolding or even most normal attention.
On August 8th, 2007, the sun was beaming down onto homes in Esto and temperatures were elevating to around 94 degrees. Amanda’s version of events started as Adrianna and AJ begged to play in their family pool because it…
