{"id":23582,"date":"2023-07-12T08:22:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T12:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/?p=23582"},"modified":"2023-07-12T08:22:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T12:22:43","slug":"summerfield-mom-charged-with-the-murder-of-her-17-month-old-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/summerfield-mom-charged-with-the-murder-of-her-17-month-old-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Summerfield mom charged with the murder of her 17-month-old son"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"848\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cvr-02-13520-SE-42nd-Avenue-Summerfield-FL-Goo-Maps.jpg\" alt=\"Ace News Today - Summerfield mom charged with the murder of her 17-month-old son\" class=\"wp-image-23583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cvr-02-13520-SE-42nd-Avenue-Summerfield-FL-Goo-Maps.jpg 848w, https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cvr-02-13520-SE-42nd-Avenue-Summerfield-FL-Goo-Maps-300x106.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cvr-02-13520-SE-42nd-Avenue-Summerfield-FL-Goo-Maps-768x272.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cvr-02-13520-SE-42nd-Avenue-Summerfield-FL-Goo-Maps-730x258.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cvr-02-13520-SE-42nd-Avenue-Summerfield-FL-Goo-Maps-435x154.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>(13520 SE 42nd Ave, Summerfield, Image credit: Google Maps)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 11, the Marion County Sheriff\u2019s Office (MCSO) headquartered in Ocala, Florida, announced that their Major Crimes Unit arrested 36-year-old Tracie Renee Puskac of Summerfield, for the murder of her 17-month-old son, Jermiyah Puskac.&nbsp; That arrest went down on Monday, July 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong>: On April 27, MCSO deputies and Marion County Fire Rescue responded to 13520 SE 42nd Avenue in Summerfield, in reference to an unresponsive infant, later identified as Jermiyah. The infant was initially transported to AdventHealth Belleview ER, then subsequently transported to UF Health Shands Hospital for treatment. Tracie Puskac, the mother of the infant, informed detectives that Jermiyah was banging his head on the floor at approximately 8:30 pm the previous night, so she moved him to a safe spot and held him down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Then, at 10:00 p.m., he became \u201cstiff as a board,\u201d at which point she put him to bed. Puskac claimed that when she woke up the following day at approximately 7:00 am, Jermiyah\u2019s lips were blue and his breathing shallow, so she had her mother call 911.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the course of several interviews with Puskac, her versions of the night\u2019s events continued to change, giving detectives different accounts of how Jermiyah hit his head. MCSO detectives inquired as to why Puskac did not call 911 when the infant became \u201cstiff\u201d the previous night. Puskac stated she did not want the Department of Children and Families (DCF) to come and take her children away again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DCF has an open case with Puskac and had previously removed the children from the home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tragically, Jermiyah ultimately succumbed to his injuries on April 29.  On July 7, the Medical Examiner\u2019s Office provided the autopsy results, concluding that Jermiyah died from <em>&#8220;complications of a skull fracture, subdural hemorrhage, and traumatic brain and spinal cord injury due to abusive head and neck trauma.&#8221; <\/em>Due to these injuries, it was determined the manner of death was a homicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MCSO Major Crimes Detective John Lightle\u2019s investigation determined that Jermiyah\u2019s injuries were too severe to be caused by any of Puskac\u2019s scenarios, and she was arrested at her home on July 10.&nbsp; The Summerfield mom is being charged with the Second-Degree Murder of her baby boy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is being held at the Marion County Jail with no bond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A 36-year-old Summerfield woman was arrested Monday on a second-degree murder charge in connection with the death of her 17-month-old son, the Marion County Sheriff\u2019s Office said.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3MPuaJfpv6\">https:\/\/t.co\/3MPuaJfpv6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; WFTV Channel 9 (@WFTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WFTV\/status\/1679098586313768960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(Source and Tracie Renee Puskac booking photo: Marion County Sheriff\u2019s Office)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Posted by Richard Webster, Ace News Today\u00a0 \u00a0\/\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Follow Richard on\u00a0<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/richard.webster.31\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>,\u00a0<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rdwebster\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Twitter<\/em><\/a><em>&amp;\u00a0<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rdwebster54\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Instagram<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The baby boy suffered multiple severe inuries that ultimately proved fatal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8037,448,3537,18,66,77,8663,2124,7742,771,3079,4950,11,4481],"tags":[14772,10999,14769,14770,23,2949,13953,14773,14771,3866,10099,14768],"class_list":["post-23582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-assault","category-bad-parents","category-child-safety","category-crime-courts","category-crimes-against-children","category-domestic-violence","category-human-interest","category-local","category-mugshots","category-murder","category-police","category-rest-in-peace","category-top-news","category-violent-crimes","tag-13520-se-42nd-avenue","tag-dcf","tag-department-of-children-and-families","tag-domestic-violence-homicide","tag-florida","tag-florida-woman","tag-held-without-bond","tag-in-summerfield","tag-jermiyah-puskac","tag-marion-county","tag-marion-county-sheriffs-office","tag-tracie-renee-puskac","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23585,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23582\/revisions\/23585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acenewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}