Indictment: Sisters beat boy to death with baseball bat for taking cupcake

Phillip Kish and Adrianne Haney | WXIA-TV, Atlanta

Show Caption Hide Caption Sisters accused of killing 3-year-old over cupcake Glenndria and LaShirley Morris are accused of beating the 3-year-old boy to death as punishment for taking a cupcake from the kitchen.

ATLANTA — Two sisters accused of beating a three-year-old to death for taking a cupcake from the kitchen were indicted on felony murder charges Tuesday.

According to the indictment, the boy's guardian, 25-year-old Glenndria Morris, and her sister LaShirley Morris are accused of repeatedly striking 3-year-old Kejuan Mason in the head with a baseball bat and spanking the boy on his bottom as punishment for taking a cupcake from the kitchen.

At the time of the Oct. 21 incident, the sisters told police that the boy choked on a cupcake. Police said they later changed their story, saying that the boy had choked on the cupcake, but then it was removed and he appeared to be OK.

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They said he went to sleep and when they checked on him, he was unresponsive and they called 911. Paramedics told police that it appeared the 3-year-old had not been breathing for a while. He was pronounced dead at Atlanta Medical Center. A report from the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office later indicated that the boy, who was bruised all over his body, died of blunt force trauma.

Police arrested the Morris sisters and they were taken to the Fulton County Jail, and were later issued a $200,000 bond.

The women face a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted.

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