GUILTY WV - Emmaleigh Barringer, 10 months, dies after brutal rape, Ripley, 3 Oct 2016 *Arrest*

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Trial date set for man accused of sexually assaulting and killing infant - November 1, 2017

http://www.wsaz.com/content/news/Man-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-9-month-old-baby-395826091.html

Benjamin Taylor, of Cottageville, is charged with murder, sexual assault and child abuse in connection with the death of 10-month-old Emmaleigh Barringer.

Taylor appeared in a Jackson County courtroom Wednesday for a pretrial hearing.

At the hearing, the trial was continued until Feb. 13, 2018.
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Judge appoints new attorney in Jackson County infant death case
Circuit Judge Craig Tatterson handed down an order on June 4 to delay the trial for Benjamin Ryan Taylor and allowed for Taylor’s attorneys to withdraw from the case.

Taylor’s trial was scheduled to begin June 4, but with the new appointment, Tatterson ruled to delay Taylor’s trial. A new trial date has not been set.

The next hearing in the case is set for July 26.
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Is this going in front of a jury? I’ll be praying for those folks if so. Not at all the kind of crime you want to be confronted with in graphic detail before going home at night to see your loved ones and kids. :/
 
Taylor trial: Investigators say crime scene limited to small area - WV MetroNews

RIPLEY, W.Va. — A Jackson County man accused in the murder of a 10-month-old girl in 2016 was arrested 95 minutes after the crime was reported, jurors learned in day two of the trial Thursday in Ripley.

Prosecutors called several investigators to the stand who were on the scene the night Benjamin Taylor, 33, of Cottageville, allegedly sexually assaulted Emmaleigh Barringer. She died a few days later. He’s charged with murder and sexual assault.
 
Here's coverage of the trial including archived details on prior hearings. The trial resumes at 9 a.m. tomorrow (Friday). Still to come is DNA evidence and jail phone call records from Taylor.
UPDATE | Recap of day 2 of trial for baby's murder/sexual assault

From that link:
UPDATE 3/14/19 @ 6:10 a.m.
Most of the officers had consistent memories of that day and the crime scene. They mentioned how hysterical Adkins was on scene, and how Taylor kept lifting up his shirt to show the officers he had dried blood on his chest and torso, but didn't know where it came from.

Body camera footage and audio recordings of Taylor were shown as evidence in court Thursday. Pictures of the crime scene were also displayed, and a member of the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office, who evaluated the crime scene, testified. He said processing the scene took several hours.

The defense attorney for Taylor, Tim Rosinsky, has been consistent in saying his client has been falsely accused. He said the investigation should not have just been focused on Taylor, saying investigators should have interviewed neighbors.

Chief Deputy Ross Mellinger with the Jackson County Sheriff's Office responded, "This particular crime scene didn't involve what you called the neighborhood. Matter of fact, it is was even more restrictive than the residence itself. It was more restricted than just one level of the residence; it was restricted to one room and particularly one area of that room."
UPDATE 3/14/19 @ 12:30 a.m.
Emmaleigh’s mother, Amanda Adkins woke up that morning and began looking for Taylor. She found him with no shirt on and unbuttoned jeans and Emmaleigh was lying in a pile of blankets on the floor.

"I asked him what he was doing, he said he was drying her off. I asked him why he was drying her off at 5 o'clock in the morning,” Adkins said.

She noticed there was something wrong with the girl's face and asked him what happened and he told her he didn’t know.
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The defendant’s lawyer agreed that what happened to the baby is horrible, but said that Taylor is innocent.

“But it's also tough to think that you're being accused of it when you didn't do it,” he said.
UPDATE 3/13/19 @ 12:07 p.m.
Then, Taylor's lawyer spoke and kept reiterating to the jury what happened to Emmaleigh is terrible, but Taylor has been falsely accused.
UPDATE 8/31/17 @ 6:25 p.m.
Defense attorneys argued that phone records including text messages, social media posts and Internet searches should be thrown out. They said the prosecution "characterizes" and "makes assumptions" about the evidence that the defense attorneys feel will damage the jury. They argued that the state elaborates too much on the phone records (i.e. calling the Internet searches "graphic") and that it will confuse and taint the jury.
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Attorneys also argued about several search warrants including those of the apartment, Taylor's clothing and his person. The defense said investigators lacked probable cause, while the prosecutors argued that probable cause was there.
UPDATE 10/12/16 @ 11:45 a.m.
The mother testified that she and Taylor had smoked marijuana and drank alcohol that night, according to court records.

The deputy testified Taylor didn't appear to be overly intoxicated when he got to the scene.

The medical examiner who performed the autopsy says a skull fracture was the cause of death.
ORIGINAL STORY 10/4/16
Deputies then spoke with Taylor, who initially said he didn't know how the injuries happened.

After being read his Miranda rights, Taylor said he took the infant to the basement of the house to do laundry earlier that evening.

When deputies questioned Taylor on how the infant received her injuries again, Taylor said he "blacked out" and didn't know how they happened.
 
The third day of Benjamin Taylor's murder trial is set to begin 9am Friday.
 
Taylor, 34, of Cottageville, took the stand Monday in his trial at the Jackson County Courthouse.
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Taylor testified that Adkins, whom he lived with, had gone to bed that night around 9:30 p.m. Three of her children had gone to bed, too, but Emmaleigh wasn’t ready to sleep, he said.
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Taylor said he’d had “episodes” where he would black out after drinking “too much too fast” since 2006. He said he had never seen a doctor about the episodes.
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Prosecutor Katie Franklin showed the jury a few Facebook posts making light of sexual violence that Taylor shared prior to the baby’s October 2016 death.

One said, “Sex without pain is like food without taste.” Another said, “Good sex should be in the grey area between tickle fight and domestic violence.”
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Taylor testifies in Jackson infant sex assault, murder case
More at the link. So this guy and his lawyer seem to think that drinking to the point of blacking out will mitigate the crime.

Was Emmaleigh's mother aware of Taylor's drinking problem? All his ex-girlfriends and his own mother apparently were. Grr.
 
Guilty!

Ripley, site of the last public hanging in WV.
 
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