Grandmother stabs her one-year-old granddaughter and then bakes her in an oven
48-year-old Carolyn Jones has been charged with first-degree murder and is being held on a $500,000 bond. It is unclear if mental illness of the woman is a factor in the case.
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In what has to be one of the most gruesome crimes in recent times, a Mississippi grandmother was arrested after she killed her toddler granddaughter then baked her inside an oven. 48-year-old Carolyn Jones was taken into custody by the Bolivar County Police Department in Shaw, a small town of just 2,000 people in the Mississippi Delta, and charged with first-degree murder in the child's death.
According to the Daily Mail, the body 20-month-old girl Royalty Marie Floyd was found on Monday night by Jones' brother, who then reported the incident to the police. Deputies who arrived at the residence on Martin Luther King drive found the toddler inside the oven. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
