this is in regards to the case with Khristyne Barkley, Desmond Murray and little baby Daidon Murray?

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Here is the article about this case. She needs to be convicted!!!!!

Published: Friday, April 27, 2007

CHARGED WITH MURDER
Police Say Haven Man Suffocated Crying Son
Desmond Justin Murray is accused of taping a cloth in the 10-week-old’s mouth.
By John Chambliss
The Ledger
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WINTER HAVEN - Determined to quiet his 10-week-old son, Desmond Justin Murray stuffed a washcloth in the child’s mouth and used masking tape to secure the cloth, police say.

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Desmond Justin Murray

Related ArticlesMan Indicted in Child Abuse Death Daidon Murray suffocated silently.

On Thursday, nearly two months after the baby died, Desmond Murray, 24, was indicted by a Polk County grand jury. He was held without bail in the South County Jail in Frostproof on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse in a case that Winter Haven police described as “horrendous.”

An autopsy concluded the 9-pound infant died from asphyxia and suffered other injuries, including broken ribs and a bruise on his head.

Murray has denied abusing the child and blamed the boy’s mother for his death, according to police.

But Daidon’s mother, Khristyne Barkley, told detectives that Murray abused the baby over a period of weeks. She also said he had abused her repeatedly and had threatened to hurt her if she intervened to help the baby.

Murray, Barkley and the baby lived in a 450-square-foot studio at Sailwind Apartments at 360 24th St., N.W., and in the tight quarters the crying infant became an annoyance.

According to the police account, Barkley told detectives that Murray “had grown frustrated with Daidon’s crying and had learned he could stop the baby from crying by forcing air from his abdomen by pushing down on the baby’s stomach.”

When that stopped working, he put a washcloth into his child’s mouth, the arrest report said, but Daidon “figured out how to get the washcloth out of his mouth, so the defendant had begun securing the washcloth in the baby’s mouth with masking tape.”

Barkley told police that on the afternoon of March 1, Daidon began crying and Murray tossed the child on a bed, causing him to cry even more. Murray used the washcloth and tape, then placed the baby in a closet in his baby seat, according to the statement Barkley gave investigators.

She said Murray watched television while she checked on the baby several times during a span of about 30 minutes. On first check, Daidon sounded congested. Later, he was cold and had stopped breathing.

Barkley told police she wanted to call 911, but Murray told her not to until he had revived Daidon. When attempts to revive the baby failed, Barkley called 911 as white fluid flowed from the child’s mouth, the police report said.

Daidon was taken to Winter Haven Hospital where he was declared dead. An emergency room doctor told police that Murray and Barkley had told her the baby pulled a blanket around his head in his crib. They told the doctor the blanket was wrapped so tightly that they had to cut it with scissors.

Murray and Barkley gave a similar account to investigators. But police searched the apartment and didn’t find any evidence of a blanket that had been cut by scissors.

Murray told police that neither he nor Barkley could have harmed the child without one of them witnessing the abuse.

When Barkley was first questioned, she denied that any abuse had occurred. Later she told police that Murray repeatedly abused her and the child. She hasn’t been charged in the case.

Murray also has an 8-month-old daughter, and on April 17 the mother of that child was interviewed by detectives about a conversation she had with Murray a week earlier. The woman told the detectives that Murray said he had watched as Barkley placed the washcloth and tape over the baby’s mouth, causing the child to suffocate.

Later that day, police issued a warrant for Murray’s arrest. Detectives learned that Murray was in Pinellas County, and St. Petersburg police arrested him on a charge of aggravated manslaughter of a child. He was transferred to Polk County, and the charges were upgraded Thursday after the grand jury handed up its indictment.

Murray is unemployed but sometimes worked as disc jockey in clubs around Winter Haven. He and Barkley had been dating for 14 months, police said.

Law enforcement officials were stunned by the infant’s death.

“It’s as bad a case as I’ve ever seen,” Winter Haven Police Chief Mark LeVine said.

John Chambliss can be reached at john.chambliss@theledger.com or 863-401-6965
Why isn’t she being convicted and what can be done to get her convicted also???

TYRONE