Baby sitter charged months after death of Houston 6-month-old

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Houston police have arrested a woman almost a year after investigators said she injured a 6-month-old girl while baby-sitting in Greater Greenspoint, leading to her death.

Sylvia Ann Taylor, 50, is accused of causing head trauma to the baby, Kyrie Trishell, on Nov. 2. She was charged with injury to a child, a felony, on Sept. 13 and is being held in jail on $100,000 bond.

The baby’s mother, Kimberly Randle, said she’d hired Taylor to baby-sit Kyrie and 2-year-old Vontre Jr. while she was at work. Randle said she got a voicemail from Taylor around 11:45 a.m. that day from a neighbor’s phone number. In the message, Taylor said, “something is wrong with your baby,” Randle told investigators.

Randle called Taylor back, who said she thought the baby wasn’t breathing.

When police arrived at the baby's mother's house in the 800 block of Seminar, the baby had burn marks on both sides of her cheeks and appeared to have suffered cardiac arrest, an investigator said in charging documents. She was taken to the hospital, where she died.

In two interviews with police last year, Taylor offered varying stories of the morning, according to court documents.

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Taylor maintained in the first interview that she propped the baby in the living room to watch TV. She gave Kyrie a bath around 11 a.m. and noticed she was falling asleep, she said. As she dried the baby off with a towel, a piece of skin peeled off on both cheeks, she said in the interview.

Taylor told investigators that she went to check on Vontre Jr. in a different room and returned to where she’d placed Kyrie on her mother’s bed. She said Kyrie didn’t appear to be breathing, and she performed CPR for several minutes. Taylor then went to a neighbor to borrow a cell phone and call Randle, she said.

In a second interview, Taylor told police that the day before the baby died, Kyrie fell on the floor from a short stack of pillows. She said the morning of the death, the baby also fell off the couch and onto the living room floor.

Taylor said that the baby kept crying, and she shook her to keep her quiet, according to court documents. Taylor said the baby stopped responding around 11:47 a.m.

The neighbor who let Taylor borrow his phone said that Taylor at first didn't make it seem like there was an emergency. He and Taylor went to the master bedroom and saw the baby on the bed.

Taylor said she didn’t know CPR, so the neighbor did CPR while the baby was “ice cold, not breathing and appeared that she had been dead for some time,” he told police.

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Medical examiners said that Kyrie had brain swelling and had suffered blunt force trauma to the head, investigators reported in court documents. She was also bruised below the skin on the back of her neck and inside her throat.

Detectives interviewed Taylor a third time almost 10 months later. She said that Kyrie fell from her mother’s bed while she was changing her diaper, around 8:30 a.m. She went to get diapers in the living room and came back to find the baby on the floor, Taylor told police.

Taylor said she freaked out because she had “never been around a dead person before” and didn’t know what to do, court documents show. She said she also dropped the baby on the kitchen floor earlier that morning while trying to get the 2-year-old some food. Kyrie’s head hit the floor, but Taylor didn’t see any injuries, she said.

Taylor told investigators that “I might have gotten angry but I did not hit her with anything,” and she repeated several times “I did not throw her.” She said she was angry the baby wouldn’t stop crying.

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The babysitter then admitted that she “probably hit her head on the sink” while giving Kyrie a bath, and that she might have gotten mad and shoved her back in the sink, according to court documents.

She told investigators, that she’s “not saying I’m not at fault for the baby dying, but why did it have to happen to me that day.”

Authorities said the baby died from soft tissue hemorrhaging on the inside of her scalp, and that her injuries came from impact with a solid object or surface, according to court documents. She also could have fallen asleep and died while giving a bath, however. Taylor did inflict injuries on the left and right side of Kyrie's cheeks after she died, police said in the documents.

The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences has not yet ruled on a cause and manner of the child's death.