USKEGON, Mich. (WOOD) — Court documents show the 8-year-old girl accused of killing a toddler at a Muskegon home day care earlier this year has serious mental health problems.
In a petition filed last month, the Department of Health and Human Services in Muskegon County asked a court to remove the girl — who 24 Hour News 8 is not identifying — from her mother’s care at “no fault of (her) mother” and place her in a psychiatric hospital for evaluation.
In its chronology of the April 14 homicide, the petition states the girl took 1-year-old Korey Brown out of his playpen while he was crying and screaming, put him in a closet, bit his face and began kicking him. Investigators said they found blood in the closet and on pillowcases, “evidencing that the victim was in the closet and that a pillow was covering his face.”
DHHS officials noted the girl’s brother, who was 4 at the time, was also staying at the day care and reported being scared by what his sister was doing.
The petition also details the 8-year-old’s behavior at home, school and her “self-report.”
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