not once, but twice.

Padmaja Enjeti, 37, said she had already dropped her 22-month-old daughter from a second-floor balcony inside her home last month when she called 911 to report the incident.
Now since it wasn’t enough to drop the baby once, Enjeti told the dispatcher, “I did it again” when she returned to the phone.
Now the defense attorney is claiming his client has mental health issues and has been suffering from schizophrenia since her daughter was born in January 2006.
I would hope that the defense would claim she had mental health issues, I cannot see a sane person dropping a baby twice over a second floor balcony.
But Enjeti tried to explain her actions. She said the baby had been fussy and would not eat. So she placed the baby in a play area on the 2nd floor in her home. The baby continued to be fussy and still would not eat. Police then reported that Mrs. Enjeti became angry and frustrated.
Once she became frustrated, she tossed the baby over the railing of the balcony.
Her response to that was 'I tried to kill her'
At the start of the 911 recording, the baby can be heard crying in the background.
"My daughter is dying," Mrs. Enjeti told the dispatcher. "I tried to kill her."
She said, "I pushed her from the stairs ... from the ceiling."
The dispatcher asked Mrs. Enjeti a series of questions, and the Plano woman said that she no longer wanted to kill her child. Moments later, the phone call disconnected. The woman called back and Mrs. Enjeti, who was at home alone, told her to hold on.
The baby's crying had subsided but resumed and grew louder, even as it seemed like she was getting farther from the phone. Then there was an audible thud and screaming.
When Mrs. Enjeti returned to the phone, the dispatcher asked, "What did you do?"
"I just did it again," Mrs. Enjeti replied. "I pushed her from the ceiling again."
She did not respond to further questions from the dispatcher and was breathing heavily.
"I'm out of control," Mrs. Enjeti said before walking away from the phone.
Thank God the baby was not seriously injured. She ended up with contusions.
The initial charge was injury to a child and latter since the child was not seriously injured the charge was changed to attempted capital murder.
Sivaram Enjeti, Mrs. Enjeti's husband, also testified during the hearing. He described how his wife had been hallucinating that friends from Chicago were in their house and invisible. She also believed that her husband was gay and having an affair, said Mr. Enjeti, who denied this Tuesday.
Because of her hallucinations he was under treatment and taking Haldol nightly until the day she called the police to her house.
Judge Dry reduced Mrs. Enjeti's bail but issued several conditions, including that she have no contact with her children unless approved by him or the judge handling custody issues.
The 22-month-old and her 8-year-old brother were both removed from the home the day of the incident and placed in a foster home by Child Protective Services.
In a custody hearing Tuesday afternoon before state District Judge Cynthia Wheless, prosecutors played the 911 recording used during the bail reduction hearing. Judge Wheless ruled that Mr. Enjeti would regain custody of the couple's children
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