Michigan Mother Claims Spongebob Told Her To Kill Her 3-Year-Old

A Michigan mom has made some outlandish allegations surrounding the death of her 3-year-old daughter, who was found dead in a trash bag.

Justine Johnson, 22, told investigators Spongebob told her to kill her child or she would face death herself, the New York Post reported.

Johnson is accused of stabbing her daughter Sutton Mosser multiple times on Sept. 16, two days after the child’s third birthday.

She then stuffed the young child’s body into a black trash bag. Apparently, the mother suffered from hallucinations due to weeks of heroin withdrawal and lack of sleep.

She now faces felony murder and first-degree child abuse charges.

Ryan Eberline, an investigator with Child Protective Services, testified during Friday’s preliminary hearing against the mother. Eberline interviewed Johnson on Oct. 1 and said that on the day the child was killed, Johnson claimed she had left her mother’s house where she was living and passed out in a graveyard. She also said that she attempted to kill herself before she killed her daughter when she returned to her mother’s house.

“She told me that she didn’t remember the specifics of what happened at the time of what happened to Sutton, that she was experiencing hallucinations due to heroin withdrawal and not sleeping for approximately two weeks,” Eberline said. “She was getting hallucinations from the TV that had instructed her to take her daughter’s life or they would kill her.

“It was SpongeBob who was saying these things on the TV,” Eberline added. “If she didn’t do what she did to her daughter they would kill her. She said she was afraid for her life and she had lost her mind.”

Johnson sobbed as she entered the courtroom in shackles and also cried throughout the hearing, MLive reported.

Johnson’s brother, Knesley Johnson Jr., was a witness for prosecutors and testified on the stand as their first witness.

Knesley said that he had left for work that day around 2:30 p.m. and said there was nothing unusual about his sister or his niece. When he returned from work around 3:30 a.m., the following day, he had asked his brother where their sister and his niece were.

When the brother, 17, went to find them, he noticed a human child’s foot sticking out of a bag, Knesley Johnson testified.

The brother, who was not identified because of his age, also testified. He testified that he ran into his sister in the bathroom around 6 a.m. on Sept. 16 and added that it looked as if she had been “doing lines” of cocaine. However, he was not for sure.

The teen said he then asked his sister where the child was.

“She said, ‘Mind your own F***ing business,’ which was her normal response,” he said.

When testifying about the body, he said, “There was like a foot sticking out of the bag,” he said. “I ran up and told Knesley, ‘There’s a foot in a bag.’ But said that the brother didn’t believe him. “He thought I was joking.”

The brothers looked at the bag and then called their uncle.

Oscoda Township Police Officer Gerald Soboleski arrived at the residence in the early morning hours of Sept. 17.

“Knesley started telling me about how he came home from work on this day and looked throughout the house for his sister and niece and was unable to locate them,” the officer testified. “At that point, he said, ‘And then we found this,’ referring to what we later found was the human foot.”

Soboleski said he went to a back room of the house and discovered a blue tote bag that contained two garbage bags stacked on top with a foot showing.

“I felt the bottom of the child’s foot. It was cold to the touch, and EMS was called to the scene,” he said. He proceeded to call detectives from the department and a medical examiner to respond.

Investigators also found several bloodstains on a hallway closet door, on the living room couches, and on items in a bedroom, Shane Hill, a forensic scientist with Michigan State Police Crime Lab confirmed.

Three knives were also discovered inside a bedroom, Hill added.

Sutton’s body had been wrapped in a comforter, along with a pair of jeans that eventually tested positive for blood. It appears the child was killed inside of the home.

Iosco County medical examiner Dr. Jaya L. San Karen testified that Sutton suffered from stab wounds on her neck, chest, and abdomen.

“My heart goes out to the family who’s here,” the judge said at the hearing’s end. “Good luck to you, Justine, as your case proceeds.”