Monea Boyd arrested in death of her toddler

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Monea Boyd

EL PASO -- Police investigators said the death of a 22-month-old toddler was no accident and have arrested the mother.

Detective with the Crimes Against Persons Unit (CAP) arrested Monea Boyd, 22, Tuesday and charged her with Capital Murder. She was booked into the El Paso County Dentention Facility without bond.

On December, 6, 2008, emergency crews responded to 2453 Tierra Negra. According to the arrest affidavit, Boyd called 911 and said her toddler, Jayceon Tyson, was not breathing. Crews rushed the toddler to Sierra Providence West, where he died the following day.

According to the affidavit, the toddler had scrapes throughout his entire body, head injuries and multiple contusions on the head, face, torso and the extremities.

The medical examiner concluded the trauma resulting from the toddler's head injuries were not the result of an accidental injury, according to the affidavit.

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A former Fort Bliss soldier accused of beating her 22-month-old son to death in December pleaded not guilty Wednesday.

Monea Boyd, 25, wearing a red jail jumpsuit and her hair in braids, was arraigned in the 409th District Court with her lawyer, Dolph Quijano, at her side. Police arrested Boyd on Jan. 21 and charged her with capital murder after the death of her son, Jayceon Astro Tyson, was ruled a homicide by Dr. Paul Shrode, the El Paso County Medical Examiner.

Jayceon died Dec. 7 at Providence Memorial Hospital after he was found unconscious in his home in the 2400 block of Tierra Negra.

During an interview Saturday at the El Paso County Jail, Boyd said she never hurt Jayceon. She said he became ill, choked on his own vomit and then injured himself.

The autopsy report stated that Jayceon had healed fractures on his collar bones and a healing fracture in his right arm. He also had several cuts and bruises on his head, face, torso and limbs, and brain swelling and retinal hemorrhages which Shrode associated with shaken-baby or impact-type trauma.

"My son didn't die the way they're saying he did," Boyd said. "Three different doctors saw my son and nothing was ever mentioned about trauma."

Shrode wrote in the autopsy report that since there was no medical history to adequately explain Jayceon's injuries, which he characterized as nonaccidental, he classified Jayceon's death as a homicide.

Boyd estimated 20 minutes passed from when she found her son not breathing to the time paramedics arrived and took him to Sierra Providence East Hospital. Because her son went without oxygen for so long, Boyd said, his brain swelled and became compressed against the skull. He was later transferred to Providence Hospital in West El Paso. Boyd said she did not know how Jayceon received the injuries that Shrode noted as healed or healing.

Boyd also questioned the lapse between Jayceon's death and her arrest more than a month later. Officer Chris Mears, spokesman for the El Paso Police Department, said Wednesday the time gap was because detectives were waiting for Jayceon's autopsy results to determine whether to make an arrest.

Boyd, who said her legal last name is Tyson, is originally from Denver. She moved to El Paso after she was stationed at Fort Bliss. Before Jayceon's death, she was honorably discharged from the Army as a specialist.

Her two other sons, ages 5 and 7, and her newborn daughter are being cared for by relatives in Colorado. Boyd gave birth to her daughter about two weeks ago while in custody. She has been jailed since her arrest three months ago and held without bond. Boyd said her parental rights were terminated by Child Protective Services soon after her arrest.

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