Makallie Durham: Corinth Babysitter arrested for murder after 2-yr-old boy dies and 11-month-old girl injured
CORINTH, MISSISSIPPI: A babysitter has been charged with murder as a boy she was looking after died, according to the Alcorn County Sheriff’s Department, Law & Crime reports. Makallie Durham, 23, was babysitting two children in Corinth, Mississippi on September 13, when paramedics responded to a call about an unresponsive two-year-old boy, the sheriff’s office said. The local authorities reached the place just after 9 pm on that day.
The first responders found the boy with multiple bruises and marks on his body when they arrived. He was immediately transported by ambulance to Magnolia Regional Hospital. An 11-month-old infant girl was also found suffering from various unidentified injuries. She was also later transported to the same hospital but later both of them were shifted to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.
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The detectives came to know about Durham upon their arrival at the place. According to ASCO, she was found to have an outstanding misdemeanor warrant and was taken into custody by deputies at that point. “It’s crazy, and it has a lot of people thinking about who they leave their kids with now,” Dectony Thompson said. A couple of days later on September 15, the boy died because of severe injuries. The girl was in stable condition. “I feel hurt and upset, and I went to bed last night thinking about her,” Elizabeth Shouse, neighbor where this incident happened said, reports Yahoo News.
Durham was initially detained in the Alcorn County Jail during the investigation but after the death of the 2-year-old, she was subsequently charged and remains in the jail awaiting an initial court appearance. Details related to the boy's death are not clear, however. Besides being charged with the murder of the boy she has also been charged with felony child abuse for assaulting the 11-month-old girl, according to Alcorn County Sheriff’s Office.
The names of the two victims have not been disclosed by the authorities. MEAWW previously reported that a twenty-year-old man is facing prison time over the death of an 11-month-old baby left in his care. Diquan Lloyd Erwin Fisher was 18 years old when the child's 17-year-old mother asked him to look after her sleeping baby girl in Brisbane's south in February 2020. When the baby woke up and started crying after the mother had left, Fisher picked her up, shook her vigorously till she turned "limp and blue" and told her to be quiet, the Brisbane Supreme Court heard. Fisher began "freaking out" when the child became unresponsive and the mother returned to Corinda's house. He initially told the mother that the baby had been coughing, had vomited, and choking. The baby girl was revived by paramedics at the scene but died at the Queensland Children's Hospital four days later, police said.