Crime & Safety
Mother Who Died In Piscataway Pond Was Struggling, Family Says
The mother of the woman who tragically died in the pond with her baby told the media her daughter was struggling with finances.
PISCATAWAY, NJ — The mother of the woman who was found dead in a Piscataway pond earlier this week, along with her nine-month-old son, said she thinks her daughter drove into the pond where she and the baby boy drowned, according to a newspaper report.
Grandmother Lillian Robinson told the Home News Tribune that her daughter, Tamequa Robinson, 30, was struggling with financial pressures and the pressures of being a single mother. She also said her daughter had mental health issues. She said her daughter left a note on her phone, saying that she hoped she and the baby boy would go to heaven.
In this GoFundMe created by the grieving grandmother, Robinson wrote: "This world became to much for my daughter to handle and she took her life along with my grand baby. My heart aches as I now know the tragic results of battling bipolarness and postpartum depression."
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The young woman and her baby son lived in Edison, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone.
At 5:30 a.m. on Jan. 18, police found the bodies of Robinson and the baby inside their car floating in the partially frozen New Market Pond in Piscataway.
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The car was located floating in the pond in the area of Stelton Road and Lakeview Avenue. The mother and her baby son were pulled out of the car, but later pronounced dead at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, said and Piscataway Police Chief Thomas Mosier.
The exact cause of their deaths remains undetermined, as autopsies are currently being done on both mother and baby by the Middlesex County Regional Medical Examiner's Office.
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Original Patch report: Bodies Of Woman, 9-Month-Old Pulled From Piscataway Pond
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