An Amish mother who allegedly believed she had “to allow herself to be swallowed by a fish” to prove her worthiness to God and drowned her 4-year-old son in an Ohio lake is now in custody following a mental health hospitalization, according to authorities and reports.

Ruth Miller, 40, is charged with two counts of aggravated murder, two counts of domestic violence and one count of child endangerment after the troubling chain of events at Atwood Lake on Aug. 23rd, according to court records. 3

She was released from the hospital on Monday and booked into Tuscarawas County Jail, records show.

Miller, a mom of four, and her 45-year-old husband, Marcus J. Miller, believed God was speaking to them around 1 a.m. when they jumped off a dock at Atwood Lake, where their family was camping fo

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