Inset: Anjelicia Stewart (Harris County Sheriff’s Office). Background: The Cincinnati neighborhood where Anjelicia Stewart attempted to drown her three kids at home in a bathtub (WXIX/YouTube).
An Ohio woman faces serious accusations after allegedly subjecting her three children—ages 14, 8, and 2—to abuse, torture, and a chilling attempt to drown them in a bathtub. Prosecutors claim Anjelicia Stewart, 37, submerged her children while shouting threats at them.
As she reportedly tried to drown them, Stewart is alleged to have screamed, “I’m going to kill you!” at her children at their residence in Cincinnati’s Westwood neighborhood.
The timeline of these alleged crimes remains murky, though reports from local NBC affiliate WLWT indicate the abuse occurred between 2021 and April 2025.
Stewart was arrested this week following the issuance of an arrest warrant earlier in the month.
“She repeatedly filled a bathtub full of water, held them underwater, screaming she was going to kill them,” a Hamilton County prosecutor said during Stewart’s arraignment on Tuesday. “She beat them with poles, metal clasps, dog chains, beat and choked them with belts, strangled them with her hands,” the prosecutor alleged.
In one particularly harrowing incident, Stewart is accused of violently slamming one child to the floor, causing the child to stop breathing. The child was reportedly resuscitated by a sibling who performed CPR. Details on how authorities became aware of the bathtub incident and ongoing abuse remain unclear.
Hamilton County Prosecutor Connie Pillich expressed her concern to the station, stating, “What a horrific situation for those children. I hope that they’re in safekeeping right now.”
Officials have said that Stewart’s kids are currently staying with family and friends as her criminal case unfolds. “The children are terrified of her,” the prosecutor said at Tuesday’s arraignment. “The family as well. The danger not only to them, the rest of the family.”
Stewart is facing charges of attempted murder, felonious assault, endangering children and sexual imposition. She is being held on a $500,000 bond and has been ordered not to contact her kids. She has pleaded not guilty.
