Amanda Knox admits her baby daughter ‘slipped’ and hit her head on the floor leaving her distraught

AMANDA Knox revealed that her infant daughter had “slipped” from the couch and hit her head on the floor a few months ago. Knox made the admission in a series of tweets.

Knox wrote that she held her daughter, Eureka, against her chest after the fall and felt “like the worst mother in the world.”

Instagram @amamaknoxAmanda Knox revealed that her daughter had fallen off the couch and hit her head a few months ago[/caption]

APKnox told the story in a series of tweets in support of Melissa Lucio, who is scheduled to be executed in Texas later this month[/caption]

Twitter / Amanda KnoxKnox posted the story on Twitter and in essay format on her Medium account[/caption]

The 34-year-old said that her own mother had reassured her that Knox had hit her own head in the exact same way “more than once” when she was a child.

“It’s a rite of passage, I learned, the first time your child falls, that first moment of parental negligence, that first jolt of unexpected pain that shocks them (and you) into tears,” Knox wrote.

“But an hour later, they’re okay and you’re okay, and life goes on. Unless it doesn’t.”

Knox’s tweets were dedicated to Melissa Lucio, a woman who is scheduled to be executed on April 27, 2022, in Texas after being convicted of capital murder for the death of her two-year-old daughter, Mariah.

Knox explained that Lucio had a difficult upbringing, growing up in a poor family, being sexually abused at a young age by a male relative and getting married at the age of sixteen to an abusive husband.

On February 15, 2007, Lucio’s daughter, Mariah, “who had a mild disability and was prone to tripping,” had fallen down the stairs but seemed fine afterward.

“It was two days later when Mariah went down for a nap and never woke up,” wrote Knox. Detectives interrogated Lucio, who confessed to killing her daughter. She was later sentenced to death.

Knox, who was wrongfully convicted in the 2007 murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher and spent four years in an Italian prison, stated that Lucio was vulnerable and may have been coerced to confess to the crime.

“Her interrogators kept her up until 3 am. They used techniques known to elicit false confessions. They minimized the seriousness of her situation, while also exaggerating the strength of the evidence they had against her, essentially lying to her.”

In her tweets, which were also posted in essay format via her Medium account, Knox explained how law enforcement is allowed to lie to people while interrogating them. She continues that police want to maintain the practice to “secure confessions”, however, Knox believes those confessions to be unreliable.

“The state didn’t need to present any physical evidence that she had killed her daughter, or any witness testimony showing her to be a child abuser. That confession, as it often is in such cases, was enough. She was sent to death row, where she has been for the last 14 years,” wrote Knox.

In 2020, the documentary The State of Texas vs Melissa was released and campaigns were coordinated to stop Lucio’s execution.

On April 5, 2022, Kim Kardashian, who is a known advocate for abolishing the death penalty, even took to Twitter to protest her conviction.

“I recently just read about the case of Melissa Lucio and wanted to share her story with you. She has been on death row for over 14 years for her daughter’s death that was a tragic accident,” Kardashian wrote.

“Melissa is a survivor of abuse and domestic violence herself and after being interrogated for hours and falsely pleaded guilty. She wanted the interrogation to end, but police made her words out to be a confession.

“…Please sign the petition to urge Governor @GregAbbott_TX to stop her execution,” she continued. “It’s stories like Melissa’s that make me speak so loud about the death penalty in general and why it should be banned when innocent people are suffering.”

Despite the outcry of support, the Texas Attorney General’s Office continues to argue that the case was fair and that Mariah suffered the “absolute worst” case of child abuse her doctor had seen in 30 years.

“Lucio still advances no evidence that is reliable and supportive of her acquittal,” the office wrote in court documents last month, via NPR.

At this time, it remains unclear if Lucio’s execution will be overturned.

“Even so, clemency likely doesn’t mean freedom for Lucio, but merely reprieve from death,” wrote Knox.

Instagram @amamaknoxKnox shares a daughter with husband Christopher Robinson[/caption]

APLucio was sentenced to death for the killing of her two-year-old daughter, Mariah[/caption]

GettyKnox was exonerated in 2015 after being wrongfully convicted in the murder of her roommate in 2007[/caption]