Jury Selection was re-scheduled for the trial regarding the death of 8-year old Jaylin Schwarz.District Attorney’s will be screening candidates starting on Tuesday April 24, deciding who will rule on the decision for Daniel and Ashley Schwarz who are being charged with the murder of Jaylin.David and Ashley are accused of punishing Jaylin by not allowing her to eat breakfast and forcing her to jump on a trampoline without having any water in 100+ degree heat. Police later learned that the trampoline’s temperature at the time read to be approximately 110 degrees, while the ground was 150 degrees.An autopsy listed the manner of Jaylin’s death as a homicide and the cause of death to be dehydration.CBS7 will follow the trial as it proceeds.
Ashley Schwarz was being held in jail on a $600,000 bond. Author: NewsWest 9 Updated: 2:47 PM CDT April 30, 2021
ODESSA, Texas
(Editor s note: The above video is from earlier coverage of this case.)
The woman accused of forcing 8-year-old Jaylin Schwarz to jump on a trampoline until she died has been released on bond.
According to Ector County Jail records, Ashley Schwarz, the guardian of the girl, was released on April 30.
Her bond, as well as that of Daniel Schwarz, her husband and other guardian of Jaylin and her sister, was set at $600,000 each.
Both are facing capital murder charges.
The two had a hearing at the end of March to ask for a bond reduction down to $100,000 but the judge denied both requests.