A former babysitter is scheduled to just accept a plea deal Wednesday afternoon in reference to the 2019 loss of life of a person she was accused of disabling as an toddler by extreme shaking 40 years in the past.
Terry McKirchy, 62, confronted a first-degree homicide cost for the loss of life of Benjamin Dowling, who died at 35 after a life with extreme disabilities brought on by a mind hemorrhage he suffered in 1984 when he was 5 months outdated whereas at McKirchy’s suburban Fort Lauderdale residence.
Investigators believed she prompted the hemorrhage by shaking him.
McKirchy, who now lives in Sugar Land, Texas, was indicted three years in the past by a Broward County grand jury after a 2019 post-mortem concluded Dowling died from his decades-old accidents.
He by no means crawled, walked, talked or fed himself, his household has mentioned.
However McKirchy, who confronted a potential life sentence, has at all times insisted she by no means damage Dowling.
Court docket data don’t point out what cost McKirchy will plead to or whether or not it is going to be a responsible or no contest plea.
Prosecutors and the general public defender’s workplace is not going to focus on the case earlier than the listening to.
McKirchy voluntarily entered the Broward County Jail on Might 29 after having been free on $100,000 bail since shortly after her indictment.
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