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Police say that Destiny Faith Chiveral, 24, from Charlestown, Md., faces charges of first-degree murder, first-degree child abuse resulting in death, and related offenses.
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An autopsy conducted by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore revealed evidence of trauma, police said.
Cecil County mother charged with murder of five-week-old daughter
According to the Cecil Whig, doctors found that the baby suffered blunt force trauma that caused “bleeding to the back of the brain” — and contradicted Chiveral’s suggestion that the baby had slipped between the cushions on the couch and smothered. Further, doctors said, the baby’s injuries were too severe to have even been caused by “a simple fall from a couch to the floor.”
The baby had a large bruise under the scalp at the top of the head near the forehead, two bruises on the right buttocks, a “small laceration” inside the upper lip, and a “small abrasion” on the right side of the face, according to the charging document.
The documents say that Maryland State Police detectives found videos recorded on Chiveral’s cell phone in the overnight before the baby was found dead that show she “became intoxicated” while alone in the townhome with the baby.
Maryland Mom Charged With Murder of 5-Month-Old Daughter After Night of Drinking
Ms. Chiveral had a page set up at a popular fundraising site that plead for money for expenses because 5 week old Kai'Ella' had died "unexpectedly"
but it has since been shut down, and rightly so.
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An autopsy conducted by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore revealed evidence of trauma, police said.
Cecil County mother charged with murder of five-week-old daughter
According to the Cecil Whig, doctors found that the baby suffered blunt force trauma that caused “bleeding to the back of the brain” — and contradicted Chiveral’s suggestion that the baby had slipped between the cushions on the couch and smothered. Further, doctors said, the baby’s injuries were too severe to have even been caused by “a simple fall from a couch to the floor.”
The baby had a large bruise under the scalp at the top of the head near the forehead, two bruises on the right buttocks, a “small laceration” inside the upper lip, and a “small abrasion” on the right side of the face, according to the charging document.
The documents say that Maryland State Police detectives found videos recorded on Chiveral’s cell phone in the overnight before the baby was found dead that show she “became intoxicated” while alone in the townhome with the baby.
Maryland Mom Charged With Murder of 5-Month-Old Daughter After Night of Drinking
Ms. Chiveral had a page set up at a popular fundraising site that plead for money for expenses because 5 week old Kai'Ella' had died "unexpectedly"
but it has since been shut down, and rightly so.
