Mother of slain child charged with involuntary manslaughter
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LIMA A Lima woman whose 4-year-old daughter died last month of abdominal injuries after suffering what investigators say was a severe beating has been indicted on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. Her live-in boyfriend faces charges of murder, involuntary manslaughter and endangering children for allegedly causing the death of My’Laya Dewitt and also for inflicting injuries on the young girl’s brother.
Stayce Riley, 23, Ma’Laya’s mother, was indicted earlier this week by an Allen County grand jury on a first-degree felony charge of involuntary manslaughter and a single count of child endangering, a felony of the third degree. Her bond was set at $200,000.
Girl’s murder termed a ‘horribly-gone-wrong case of discipline’
By J Swygart - jswygart@limanews.com
A shrine has been erected for 4-year-old My’Laya Dewitt outside the home on North Elizabeth Street in Lima where she was found unresponsive last week. Romiere Hale has been charged with murder in her death, and her mother faces a child endangerment charge.
J Swygart | The Lima News
The attorney for Romiere Hale said the case against his 21-year-old client, pictured above, is “a horribly-gone-wrong case of discipline that should have been handled in a different way.”
J Swygart | The Lima News
Ma’Laya Dewitt
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