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Teen charged with murder in toddler's violent deathDana Thiede, KARE3 hour ago
A 2-year-old girl was found unresponsive in south Minneapolis.
MINNEAPOLIS - A 17-year-old Minneapolis boy is charged with second-degree murder in what prosecutors are describing as
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Teen babysitter held in death of Mpls. toddler
The teen was charged in a juvenile petition Monday in the beating death of the 2-year-old girl, who died from complications of internal injuries June 10.
KARE 11 is not naming the defendant because he has not been certified to be tried as an adult, although that is expected to happen. In Hennepin County it is presumed that suspects who are 16 or 17 years old will be prosecuted in the adult system unless there is an overriding reason to keep the matter in juvenile court.
In the complaint prosecutors say the child's 20-year-old mother, who was living with the defendant and his grandparents, left for work shortly before noon that day and left the girl in the teen's care. a short time later he knocked on a neighbor's door and asked to borrow a cell phone so he could call his grandmother. He said the little girl wasn't feeling well and was staggering around.
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Teen babysitter held in death of Mpls. toddler
That neighbor said the teen left with the phone, then came back later and asked if he and the child could be taken to the hospital. The neighbor said the toddler's head was flopping back and forth and she appeared lifeless. He called 911 and immediately began CPR.
The child was rushed to Hennepin County Medical Center, where she had to be resuscitated twice. Doctors found extensive bruising to the little girl's head, arms, legs, back and abdomen. A CT scan revealed that her left kidney was split in half, as was her pancreas, her stomach and small intestine were torn, her liver was torn and eight ribs were broken. Her lungs were also hemorrhaging, and deep bruises were discovered on her scalp.
Despite attempts to save her life the child was removed from her breathing tube and she died shortly after 9 p.m. June 10.
When questioned by police the defendant told them he was babysitting the child one or two nights before her death when she began to cry and scream for her mother, who wasn't home. The teen told them at times it can be "so overwhelming to hear her cry and scream," and "he cannot do nothing." He told them he tried to get her to stop, she wouldn't and he just "lost it." The defendant said he "put her in a corner and I, I don't know, I just kicked her in the back." On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the worst, the teen said he kicked her twice with a strength of seven. "It was bad," the defendant reportedly said.
When she wouldn't stop whimpering, the teen reportedly told police he stomped on her back.
The child became sick during the night, vomiting several times. He said she was really sick, which doctors attribute to multiple organ failure.
Investigators talked to the child's biological father, who had made a video in early February of bruising on the little girl's face. In the video the child says that the defendant punched her in the face.
Copyright Gannett 2015
Teen charged with murder in toddler's violent deathDana Thiede, KARE3 hour ago
A 2-year-old girl was found unresponsive in south Minneapolis.
MINNEAPOLIS - A 17-year-old Minneapolis boy is charged with second-degree murder in what prosecutors are describing as
KARE
Teen babysitter held in death of Mpls. toddler
The teen was charged in a juvenile petition Monday in the beating death of the 2-year-old girl, who died from complications of internal injuries June 10.
KARE 11 is not naming the defendant because he has not been certified to be tried as an adult, although that is expected to happen. In Hennepin County it is presumed that suspects who are 16 or 17 years old will be prosecuted in the adult system unless there is an overriding reason to keep the matter in juvenile court.
In the complaint prosecutors say the child's 20-year-old mother, who was living with the defendant and his grandparents, left for work shortly before noon that day and left the girl in the teen's care. a short time later he knocked on a neighbor's door and asked to borrow a cell phone so he could call his grandmother. He said the little girl wasn't feeling well and was staggering around.
KARE
Teen babysitter held in death of Mpls. toddler
That neighbor said the teen left with the phone, then came back later and asked if he and the child could be taken to the hospital. The neighbor said the toddler's head was flopping back and forth and she appeared lifeless. He called 911 and immediately began CPR.
The child was rushed to Hennepin County Medical Center, where she had to be resuscitated twice. Doctors found extensive bruising to the little girl's head, arms, legs, back and abdomen. A CT scan revealed that her left kidney was split in half, as was her pancreas, her stomach and small intestine were torn, her liver was torn and eight ribs were broken. Her lungs were also hemorrhaging, and deep bruises were discovered on her scalp.
Despite attempts to save her life the child was removed from her breathing tube and she died shortly after 9 p.m. June 10.
When questioned by police the defendant told them he was babysitting the child one or two nights before her death when she began to cry and scream for her mother, who wasn't home. The teen told them at times it can be "so overwhelming to hear her cry and scream," and "he cannot do nothing." He told them he tried to get her to stop, she wouldn't and he just "lost it." The defendant said he "put her in a corner and I, I don't know, I just kicked her in the back." On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the worst, the teen said he kicked her twice with a strength of seven. "It was bad," the defendant reportedly said.
When she wouldn't stop whimpering, the teen reportedly told police he stomped on her back.
The child became sick during the night, vomiting several times. He said she was really sick, which doctors attribute to multiple organ failure.
Investigators talked to the child's biological father, who had made a video in early February of bruising on the little girl's face. In the video the child says that the defendant punched her in the face.
Copyright Gannett 2015
