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This is a somewhat local one I've been following.
Investigators found 2-year-old Ta’Naja Barnes unresponsive, dirty and cold on Feb. 11. Her mother, 21-year-old Twanka Davis, and Davis’ boyfriend, 25-year-old Anthony Myers, face murder and endangering the life and health of a child charges in connection to Barnes’ death.
DCFS: Ta'Naja Barnes was removed from custody of both parents [this link contains timeline of DCFS involvement in little Ta'Naja's short life.]
Giving evidence at the inquest, Decatur Police detective James Wrigley said Ta’Naja’s thin, cold body had been found wrapped in a urine-stained blanket the morning of Feb. 11. He described her house in the 1800 block of East North Street as full of filth and rodent feces with disconnected plumbing. The temperature in the home, where the heating was often shut off to save money, he said, had been 45 degrees when police arrived. The outside air temperature ranged between 20 and 32 degrees. Coroner: Decatur 2-year-old likely took an hour to die from cold and neglect
Wrigley said Davis, 21, and her 25-year-old boyfriend have a 1-year-old son that is also the boyfriend's child. He slept in his parents bedroom where there was a heater that had been in Ta'Naja’s room; Wrigley said Davis told police she had removed the heater on Sunday and placed it in her bedroom to replace one that was broken.
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Documenting further the conditions in the house, Wrigley said Ta'Naja was kept in a bedroom bare of furniture except for a toddler bed with no sheets or blankets. In the middle of the room, littered with rodent feces, was an empty two-liter bottle and a empty half-pint vodka bottle which Davis said she had used to give her daughter water.
Police: Mother left 2-year-old daughter to starve and freeze to death in Decatur home
haven't watched it yet but here is an alleged jailhouse interview with the mother by a local affiliate.
Investigators found 2-year-old Ta’Naja Barnes unresponsive, dirty and cold on Feb. 11. Her mother, 21-year-old Twanka Davis, and Davis’ boyfriend, 25-year-old Anthony Myers, face murder and endangering the life and health of a child charges in connection to Barnes’ death.
DCFS: Ta'Naja Barnes was removed from custody of both parents [this link contains timeline of DCFS involvement in little Ta'Naja's short life.]
Giving evidence at the inquest, Decatur Police detective James Wrigley said Ta’Naja’s thin, cold body had been found wrapped in a urine-stained blanket the morning of Feb. 11. He described her house in the 1800 block of East North Street as full of filth and rodent feces with disconnected plumbing. The temperature in the home, where the heating was often shut off to save money, he said, had been 45 degrees when police arrived. The outside air temperature ranged between 20 and 32 degrees. Coroner: Decatur 2-year-old likely took an hour to die from cold and neglect
Wrigley said Davis, 21, and her 25-year-old boyfriend have a 1-year-old son that is also the boyfriend's child. He slept in his parents bedroom where there was a heater that had been in Ta'Naja’s room; Wrigley said Davis told police she had removed the heater on Sunday and placed it in her bedroom to replace one that was broken.
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Documenting further the conditions in the house, Wrigley said Ta'Naja was kept in a bedroom bare of furniture except for a toddler bed with no sheets or blankets. In the middle of the room, littered with rodent feces, was an empty two-liter bottle and a empty half-pint vodka bottle which Davis said she had used to give her daughter water.
Police: Mother left 2-year-old daughter to starve and freeze to death in Decatur home
haven't watched it yet but here is an alleged jailhouse interview with the mother by a local affiliate.
