WICKLIFFE, Ohio (AP) – Police say an 11-year-old girl in northeast Ohio has been charged with murder in the beating death of a two-month-old who was staying overnight with the girl and her mother to give the baby’s mom a break.
The 11-year-old, her mother and the baby girl were on a couch downstairs when the mother fell asleep at about 3:00 a.m. Friday, Wickliffe police Chief Randy Ice said at a news conference Monday. The mother was awakened less than an hour later by her daughter, who was holding the badly injured infant.
The baby died later at a hospital.
A juvenile judge entered a not guilty plea for the girl on Monday. She remains in the Lake County juvenile detention center and will receive a competency evaluation.