Mom posts sunny video before son tossed off bridge




Then she dialed 911 on her cellphone. “I just threw my son over the Yaquina Bay Bridge,” McCabe told the dispatcher, according to a probable cause affidavit filed by police Tuesday. She described her son, London Grey McCabe, and the clothes he was wearing, saying he was in the water and gone. Later that night, a body was reported in the water at a bayside resort about a mile from the bridge, and police said it was that of the kindergartner.

“It’s a great tragedy,” said the boy’s great aunt, Tanya McCabe. Attorneys appointed to represent Jillian McCabe did not return calls seeking comment. Her brother-in-law, Andrew McCabe, confirmed that she had written an appeal on, a crowdfunding website. In it she described caring for her autistic son and her husband, Matt, who has been unable to work at his business doing email campaigns since developing multiple sclerosis and a mass on his brain stem.


Andrew McCabe also confirmed that his sister-in-law had posted the YouTube videos. One shows her son sitting in a hammock, smiling with a cup of juice and engrossed in an iPad. When she asks if he is happy, he says nothing. When she tells him to say “help” if he wants a push in the hammock, he says, “help.” Another shows her husband lying in a hospital bed, talking about his sudden struggle to walk and even talk.


Police said McCabe was from Seal Rock, south of Newport, but Andrew McCabe said the family had lived in Hood River. He said his brother had a business doing email campaigns until he became disabled. In the affidavit, an officer writes that Jillian McCabe was still talking on her cellphone when a sheriff’s deputy approached her on the bridge and she described again what she had done.

Another officer says he saw a woman matching her description carrying a boy on the bridge shortly after 6 p.m. and thought it odd because the boy was “too big to be carried,” according to the affidavit.


3 thoughts on “Mom posts sunny video before son tossed off bridge

  1. An extremely disturbing story I would say. What the hell is the matter with people who do this sort of thing to their own flesh and blood?? That innocent baby trusted her!!!
    . . .

  2. In Miami, the minority women generally dump their unwanted infants head-first in a 5-gallon bucket of water to rid of them.

    Most just get abortions and save the time and grief.

    If they only knew that Christians like you were lining up to help them raise their unwanted kids that just happened when they had sex with a man.

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