A woman attacks a baby in 1984 in the United States; 35 years later, he dies and she is indicted for murder – 07/30/2021 – World – KSU
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Death from 1985 shaken baby case leads to murder charge
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Woman faces murder charge after victim of decades-old ‘shaken baby’ case dies at 35
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Terry McKirchy is facing a first-degree murder charge for a crime that prosecutors said she committed nearly four decades ago in Broward County. She thought the case was behind her, but a medical examiner’s office report shows differently, prosecutors said.
Benjamin Keith Dowling died Sept. 16, 2019 in Manatee County. He was 35 years old. After performing an autopsy, forensic experts with the medical examiner’s office ruled Sept. 27, 2019 that Dowling’s cause of death was “sequelae of abusive head trauma.” Prosecutors said the head injury happened in 1984.
A former babysitter who served a few months in jail for shaking a 5-month-old boy so forcefully 37 years ago that he suffered permanent brain damage now faces a possible life sentence after his death from those injuries in 2019, at age 35, officials said.
Terry McKirchy, 59, who now lives in Texas, was arrested again on July 2 after a grand jury in Broward County, Florida, indicted her on a first-degree murder charge in the death of Benjamin Dowling, prosecutors said this week.
She was taking care of him at her home in Hollywood, Florida, on July 3, 1984, when he had difficulty breathing, the authorities said. His mother told investigators that she immediately took him to a hospital, where doctors found that he had been shaken with such force that it had severed the blood vessels to his brain.