Aug 19, 2009 2 min read

A Uniontown mother accused of killing her 3-month-old through repeated abuse wants statements she gave to police and evidence in the case to be suppressed. Lori Workman, 25, allegedly used a piece of her son’s crib to hit him repeatedly last August, police alleged. The child, Homer W. Workman, died on Sept. 22, 2008. Workman and her husband, Eric Workman Sr., tried to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the child, and then called 911, police said. Police initially searched the couple’s home and found pieces of tape in and around the crib and on a pacifier.

When police questioned the Workmans, they indicated that the couple acknowledged taping a pacifier in the child’s mouth the night before.

That raised investigators’ suspicions, and they later found that Homer Workman’s brain was not properly developed, and that he had a fractured skull and broken ribs.

When police interviewed Lori Workman months later, they indicated she admitted squeezing her son, and allowing his head to hit the handle of the stroller during another walk. She reportedly told police she was angry because her husband wasn’t helping her care for their children.

The couple has a 3-year-old, and when Workman was arrested earlier this year, she was pregnant with their third child.

Police said Lori Workman also told police that on Aug. 20 she and her husband were moving into a home on Varndell Street, and she was assembling Homer Workman’s crib.

When the child would not stop crying, Lori Workman reportedly told police she used a piece of the crib to hit the infant in the head.

When the crying still didn’t cease, police said she hit the boy again.

Lori Workman remains in the Fayette County Prison without bond.

A judge will schedule a hearing at a later date.