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World's Most Evil Babysitter Gets Exposed

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World's Most Evil Babysitter Gets Exposed

A one-year-old boy, Kyrie, was found unconscious in his apartment after suffering severe physical injuries, including brain trauma and signs of shaking. His mother, Taylor, had been relying on babysitter Kamora to care for him for weeks. Initially, Taylor believed the injuries resulted from Kyrie ingesting soap, but hospital reports revealed violent abuse. Investigators uncovered a timeline placing the abuse around 10 p.m., with Kamora admitting under interrogation to shaking and forcing the child to eat soap. Text messages, witness accounts, and a baby doll demonstration confirmed her violent actions. Despite defense efforts to exclude her statements due to Miranda rights, Kamora was found guilty of first-degree murder and child abuse, receiving a life sentence without parole. Taylor, traumatized by the loss, shared her experience of grief, neglect, and the failure of trust. The case underscores the critical dangers of unmonitored childcare, the importance of recognizing red flags, and the long-term emotional toll on families. Though the legal process took over three years, Taylor has since rebuilt her life and expressed gratitude for her new child, forever haunted by the loss of Kyrie.

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I don't want to get just to be a emergency. I have her one year old under an ambulance. He ate a bottle of salt. I was babysitting and helping her with that word. I just started watching him a few weeks ago just for her. I may have fixed the water after where she was fine. But when he went to sleep, all of a sudden his eyes started looking funny. And it was like he's having a fever, I'm scared. All right, we're getting help out to you. Are you with him right now, ma'am? Yeah, it's a month ago in her way. I just called her. Okay, is he awake? Yes, I'm okay. Has the jerking stopped yet? He's still moving. He just don't look well. No, I understand. If he gets worse, he just calls back immediately for further instructions. But the paramedics are on their way to you. All right, thank you so much. Yes, ma'am. [PHONE RINGING] I don't want to want you to understand the emergency. I just called because the eye's not opening. He's not waking up. I need you guys to hurry up and come here. Ma'am, they're coming as fast as they can for city protocols. All right, thank you. Now you said he's not awake. [PHONE RINGING] She's lying, but I'm trying to be here. He's not waking up now. Hello. This is not one call back. You said the sentence hasn't changed, ma'am, but you just told me he's not awake now. And his eyes are not open. His eyes was never open. We've been trying to wake him up. Oh, that was advised differently when I asked you the first time. He's not awake to see you change your story now. He's up, he's moving, he's kicking. But he's not getting up. Do you see the paramedics outside right now? They're coming. They're out for help. OK, they're going to take over now. [PHONE RINGING] Look for their souls. I'm going to do it. Mal walked out of the apartment. He's been detained. He's female on a one-year-older cell inside. I actually need to get my phone. I need to call my mom. Make a meal call anybody right now. Oh, my God. What is this now? You're just a weed. Oh, my God. Hey. He's Christ. What's up? That's the pills. Those are actually pills that are on him. It's OK. What's up, man? He's in the car. She's still in his one-year-old. He's in cuffs right now. They normally show up like that for their houses. That's a spot team, so yeah. And all day, we're going to have to force on troops. You have us there still left? No, no, no. There's still a male on a kid in the apartment. Who used to part, man? I'm going up, sweetheart. How are you doing? Come on. Oh, wait, my daughter. Yeah, what's up outside? What's going on? OK, we know you're on the phone with the police. We're right here. We're all the same. Please do it. Please do like it's my daughter. Come here. You're OK. What happened? You're OK. You're relaxed. We're all right. We're sane. Stand here with this officer, man. Stand back over here. We're sane. What happened? There's a one-year-old in here somewhere. Be mindful. Do you have any weapons out here? No, we're having three on the phone with. Find your back. You're being detained as far as I'm going to investigate. I'm going to follow this officer. As soon as we secure this, we'll get her, her child. Just cooperate. Let us do our job. All right. Yeah, I know. Thank you. Thank you. That's all right, come here. Daughter, baby. She's asleep. Where's Shayna? He needs to come in here with my daughter. OK. Listen. You're not under arrest for detaining here. OK. Take a deep breath. OK, I'll see. Take a deep breath. Listen. I just need you to listen for a minute, right? Calm down. We're not here to the freak you out or intimidate your daughter or anything like that. We're here to just ask questions and talk, OK? But you're being detained momentarily. OK. Clear. Let's get her to the baby. Watch your feet. Watch your steps. Hi, sweetheart. Let's get them out for her. Do you want me to bring the baby out or mommy? No. She can come in just wide. I'm detained. Are you ever seeing any of your daughter here? Yeah. All right. But I need you to work with us. I am. Give me officer. Is there any way I could contact him and then give my baby? Shortly. The honest truth to God is I found those. I was about to go throw them away. Currently, I don't think the pills are your concern right now. Do you have any family in the immediate area? Oh, yeah. My grandmother. Well, I heard her have the baby. If she had a feet or whatever, then get arrangements for somebody to come. Where's grandma? Where's Shayna? Where's grandma at? I need you to answer my question. 10 minutes away. We're at. It's right. Get on the phone with her so we can get your daughter picked up. Why does she need to get picked up? Because we need a talk. That's why. She's sleeping. Yeah. Her crib. Oh, boy. Hi. Whoa. She got two nights ago. She got a case of the sleepies. Is your baby in the house or? Yeah. How's the baby? One and a half. Is it with you and your girlfriend? Or okay. Y'all are scaring me. Like, for I think I'm gonna have a nervous breakdown. Okay. You don't have to do all that. We just need to talk to you. That's all. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I can't be with my daughter that long. I'm right used to that. Okay. We're the same age. Just take her grandma. Get grandma here to get the girl. Did y'all do something down there? Did we do something where? Grandma. I can't have these cuffs like this on me. Can just. Well, somebody get some of that. This way. Yeah. I got it. I already just do what I was doing. She's not answering. You can put on speaker and talk to her. I don't need that. You want to keep calling her. Oh, these people in your house. Yeah. There she is. Yeah. Do you have any other friends or family they can take her? Where is Shane? Did y'all take Shane? He's talking with us downstairs. You can see he can be here with the baby. Well, he's not going to be. So right now you need to make arrangements for the baby. Why did you? I need you to get the. Well, you can't get the baby. She got my nephew. She can't get the baby. Somebody go out there and take my daughter to her or something. Somebody go out to be on the baby and watch it while we're there. That's how that's about to go. Grandma. That's how it's about to go. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. You have what you're going to do. Okay, okay. All right. Don't talk to me like that. Don't tell me what we're going to do. Get out my face. What's wrong with you? You are. No, he's not. You don't run it. So you get somebody here in five minutes or CPS is getting called. Okay. All right. Okay. Grandma, I need you to over somebody. Take your. See your house. Oh, I'm sorry. Are you okay? Hey, baby. She had a case in sleepies. No. Are you a princess? I'll have to call a key, Grandma. We got the SWAT police in here trying to take me in jail. Got me a handcuffs. Grandma, I just need-- Can you get-- Yes or no? I'm going to have to call a key. I can't be on the phone as well. Are you on your way now? Nobody in there. You don't have the voice. If you come, you need to come right now. They got me right now. They got to take you right now. She says she's coming right now. She's ten. Okay. She's okay. Perfect. What's going on with my baby? Can I actually check up on my baby? Please. We'll bring the baby out here. Can you bring her out here so I can see her? Should I pick her up? Is that okay? Yeah. She needs to get her bottle. She just woke up. Can you look-- Can you talk her? Yeah. You tired? Let me be on my mom. Yeah? Cannot go in there. Well, just hold tight. Come on. First of all, Grandma. Ten minutes out. I don't know if all these guys are going to freak her out. Walked out of the room like three times every time she got her ice. Do you want a mama? 'Cause we're best friends. You silly. You being silly. Whew. A little bit of warm. Hmm. We're gonna burn her out in just a second. Can you tell me what she's going? She's playing in the crib. Not doing anything. Just smiling. Thank you. Thank you. Listen, your daughter is all smiles. We're calming her down. She needs to have a bottle for her. She's going in. Alright, we're working out. I'll happily make one. Thank you. Is there one ready? Or do we need a-- No, it's just a ready bottle. I mean, milk. And she got a bottle right there. It's like four of them. And Grandma's on the way, right? Yeah, she says she is. I don't know how slow she's going to be. Maybe I should calm myself down just in case. 'Cause you guys please don't take my daughter's milk. It's like-- No, that's what we have to call-- That's what we have to call someone. So to give your daughter to them. What kind of milk do you give her? Is it the stuff in the fridge you have for her? I have two percent. It's okay. Yeah, keep. Are you up? Do you heat it up for her? Do you just get her cold? Uh-huh. Cold or warm? Cold, cold. She like it cold. I might need her to come in here and get the baby. 'Cause if Grandma don't make it on time. Is they trying to take me to jail? I was watching Kyrie last night. He had to go to the hospital. Next night, I don't know. They busted through my-- Well, about to bust through the door. They got the freaking thing ready. Are you chillin' on the bar so-- He chillin' on the freaking bar so-- Is that right? I don't know. Sure. He took it. It's another-- It's a huge scene. No, I'm just kidding. I don't even know what's in here yet. I mean, I know it's in there, but it didn't look like mine. I just don't know what's in there, but it's a huge scene. It's a milk? There you go. There you go. There you go. There you go. Hi, honey. I'm just making sure you're awake. To them police stuff. Swat team. That's my gun. Cool. All right, babe. Daddy's got to go back to work. You got 22 minutes before the bus gets there, okay? I love you, and you have a great day. You're a good dad, bro. Thanks for that. What's your name, man, lady? Come on, honey. Come on, say I was going to go now, okay? Now, calm down. I think we're going to be on the same page now, right? Let's take those handcuffs off. You're going to let's repeat this baby in a minute. There's a thorough name, man. I think so. Can we do it ourselves, right? Yeah. Can we cooperate with this officer? Yeah. Can everybody else sit here? Yeah. I'm not dragging you out of here in the handcuffs. I'm asking you to come with us and talk with us, okay? In the meantime, we'll keep the conversation cordial like it is now, and that heated like it was, and hopefully everything will be okay, okay? Does that sound fair to you? Yeah, I do. It does. I just give her about all she's got. Oh, boy, I'm here, dude. Bye, sugar butt. Bye, bugger, bugger. She's going to cry as soon as we walk out. She's got that separation anxiety. All right. Oops. Not anymore. 7-1. Can you come up here? We should be good to start talking. On my way. Do you want us to bring her out to you? Yes, please. Oh, a cuff suffer. Are you want to keep it up? You can take a cuff suffer. I believe she's going to be cooperative now. Scooper. It's going to go see Mama for a minute. This is? Yep. Hello. Cutie booty. Oh. Just trying to keep her happy. That's yours, and this is down the door. Thank you, Dee. Thank you so much, baby. Good morning, kisses in. Okay, baby, you seen all these people, you don't know, I don't know you, so I don't know you. Yeah, everybody, we need you. Thank you. You sure got to have her, man? Yep. Ready? Ready? Ready? Ready? Ready? Ready? Ready? See you in the room. My boyfriend is having a party. Yeah, he's outside. He's keeping the time. Thanks for your cooperation, alright? You should turn around. Good luck to you, dear. Thanks so much. I'm cutie booty. See you in the room. You shaved? You like it or no? No, yeah, I do, actually. Have a short time. Who, Mom? So right now we're just waiting for Grandma to get here with a lot of stare attached to the scene. We're going to take her and the boyfriend to the station and we're going to do it. You want to go on over? That way? Yeah, let me see. No, just her. Just her. So Grandma, you saw this coming from? Yes, and I just call my stepdad to- Grandma and Satega are going to be good with us. We're going to- Yeah, they're going to make a scene. Yeah, come on over. Let's go back to that week. It's definitely some anger she was here. Yeah. We're not going all the door. It's just six minutes apart from our time. It's just this room. So if you see any blood in her head, I think I heard about it. Do you get to run down? The kid. Heads all the school line. Yeah. Eyes all the way. Yeah, so- But from the ears, some trauma. Anything can be a weapon, but most likely. It was probably shaking and punched. What about fire or something? Yeah, but I think that's bullshit. I don't think that's true. There's no fire or something here, anyway. They said- They said- They said dial. Dial, dial, dial. You have a baby. You have a baby. You have a baby. You have a baby. And that little, like, nice thing. Looks like they were drinking like a margarita or something. It's got, like, the salt in them. Hashtag pulls off the gun. Are we dead? I mean, like one of those weird containers. Same bag, but he said that he found it. Yeah, there's a whole bunch of house, a bank, another weird place. Overgrap this. I did. I did all the door. I'm sorry. It's just easier. And then it goes all night. It sounds like they're supposed to be, yeah. Be careful. She's not happy to go right there. Oh, that's good. Sometimes she don't listen. Oh, stop! You just hurt me. Because you do? You don't. You hit the bag. You can't. What do we tell you about that? You can't tell you. You hit the bag. You don't hurt yourself. I'm right here, there. I don't know how a baby sleeps comfortably. You got, like, pills trapped in. To do your own. You're pretty mobile, right? Yes. Are you able to get around real well? Yep. Did I use that thing? This is my grandma, my grandma. Okay. Hello. Thank you for coming. We just got to stay out of the apartment for right now. We need you to take-- Are you taking the kid out for right now? Go to the apartment first. That's perfectly fine. Thank you. I appreciate you coming so quickly. Thank you so much, darling. I'm not pleased with you, my daughter. No, my ability to do that, bud. Oh, my God. This is where the daughter-- her daughter sleeps. This is where the victim sleeps. It looks like they found him unconscious in the kitchen. I didn't get it, but I just didn't get it. I don't want it to close. Not that I know. My grandmother just picked up a kid. She just wants to wait around to see if she can get in there and get some stuff for the baby. Okay. What can we bring her for the baby? Just, like, one-- one pair is a close. She normally have a baby bag that black will right there. Okay. I put a bunch of different outfits, socks, diapers. Come on. I'll be in the tent, because I'll be-- Yeah, and you're-- Thank you, man. I was telling his mother that I was already having-- No, I mean, she was with him, you know, waking up while I was asleep. Always this hot in there. It's not hot. Huh. What's up? You know where grandma is? She already pissed off. She was waiting for her bag for the kid. On a pat down there, we pulled a bag off him. Like a foil bag at the mirror when it comes in, but he said his pills. So whatever he gets on with that, I mean, he's good for that feeling as well. Let's bring a man on that charge. Are you grandma? Yeah. How you doing, ma'am? Here's the bag for her. How long she gonna be detained? No, no. It could be a couple hours, maybe. Well, there's three hundred, you know. I can't just pull something, take care of the baby for now and tell mom it's free to come back. All right. I can't call my mom. Detectives are gonna talk to you first. From this side, one, you can make that phone call. I'm not good mentally right now. I'm about to get in trouble. I'll send a holster to a pistol in the closet. Oh. Just because-- I'm waiting to always fantasize about how I'm wanting to get a gun. Let me see. You know. Oh my god. I feel like they have the heat on them here. It's to really be sweating as much. God, I feel like I already need a shower. Thank you so much. These aren't the most comfortable ones, but I'll take it on grateful. It looks like that's blood. Still pulling. So that's pretty fresh. It makes it me when I was already on my boyfriend. They made it look like they've taken my baby and scared the crap out of me. No, that's not happening. Your grandmother's got her. [VIDEO PLAYBACK] It's a station for the female starting 102 nine cells. Holy cow. So I'm convinced there's heat sold the glass thing in there. Yeah, it is. I had to be 90 in the house. I'm drenched. It's a battle on you. I'm sure I had somewhere to watch out. As 22-month-old Kyrie undergoes brain surgery for his severe injuries, investigators turn to suspect and witness interviews to determine the specifics behind what happened. They begin with Shane, the boyfriend of Kamora, who is the woman Kyrie's mother says was responsible for watching him that night. After ensuring Shane understands his Miranda rights, they move forward with questioning. Why do you think you're here? I'm going to grow a bunch of you, baby. The baby stands for a little board. Wow, that word. How long do you wish I'll last mine? 12, 30. Shane's timeline is critical. Investigators believe the abuse occurred around 10 pm, meaning if he wasn't home until 12-30, he has an alibi. If you're home a little after midnight, what happened? I got out of the shower. I went back into the room. He was in there on the phone. I think that you ate food for something earlier. Who told you that? Kamora told Taylor that he was having a large reaction or something. I told her to call a ambulance. Text records confirm the messages were sent at 1.50 am. After seeing a photo of Kyrie's severely injured face, Taylor immediately left work and arrived at the apartment just 15 minutes later. I'm going to shut up. I carry him up. Do your girlfriends tell you what happened to him? I'll show you that with you. Oh, you didn't notice the readings of the ears? No. What in the mind say? Do it by the inside. I told her she had to be strong for him. The hospital just found some obvious signs of physical abuse. Physical abuse. Yeah. My girlfriend wouldn't do that. A brain bleed? So I thought what's coming from the ears for working out in right now as we speak. How long can they stay with you guys? Like every other night? Yeah. I used to meet like three, some time you stayed the whole night. You been waking up in the middle of the night and doing stuff. They got caught on the bed in the fridge. Does he sleep in here in the daughter's room? He's on the floor in her room. He can walk. Yeah. So he can get off and just kind of move around that apartment. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like up and it's a mess. Talk about what was more. You might be very brief or rational. She was even educated very fast. If I knew, she was something like that. I would have caught the cat myself. A baby with a baby. Like that. Okay. She has her mom. Like everybody does. Sure. Right in that little boy. Come on. You should be investigating however that grows at this month's or child. All day long out. Your f---ing whammy and all types of shit underneath this. You're not even true to holding it right here right now. You can be looking at it. You're very serious. Stony charge. Like everything I told you that's how it went. So when I'm looking around your apartment, I'm seeing all the holes in the walls instead of a hole. I'm seeing all the room making. All the other people that described Camara very differently from when you described. She's like a hothead. Like she's crazy. When you talk to family members, look at her criminal history. Her charges are kind of lightened over the ingredients. We had arguments. Some of them. How many times did that happen? Two times. Who got black up and cheated? She acted natural and cool from the many out of all. Everything was cool. She just thought I'm making dinner. I was about to smoke, eat, and let out. Thinking about a little boy that probably in the back. He didn't deserve that. He's pretty happy when you're trying to minimize your action, right? If I told you what I know, that's all I know. I told you so best, this little boy. I can't imagine it for my daughter. Investigators now turn to Camara. Based on the timeline and forensic evidence, they believe she alone caused Kyrie's injuries and now aimed for a confession to build a stronger case for prosecutors if the charges lead to a jury trial. Just like with Shane, investigators ensure Camara understands her Miranda rights before proceeding with the interrogation. You've developed a significant amount of evidence and we have a pretty clear understanding of what happened. I don't think this day's all the time. I'm asking you just to be honest with us. Will you do that? Yes. All right. Who is his mother? Camara. Camara tells investigators she recently met Taylor, who lives directly below her, and had been babysitting Kyrie five nights a week for several weeks, often from 5 p.m. until three in the morning or later. She's been here about an hour. For night, however, till she may. She's just kind of random. I get paid. No. If I claim that. It's a low flight in that part. Kyrie is super smart. I think that you were even chew on us, but we were like, where did you do it? Did it out? out. I just feel like that's what I'm doing. It's like, I'm like, I'm sitting out. One, two, three. I think that he couldn't spit out, I was like, oh, he might choke it or something. He wouldn't even, like, let me dig my whole finger in there and just let me get like a spoon and break it up. I just, I want to swallow it. What kind of spoon did you use? I'm not a spoon, I started taking them on, like, I just called Kairi to run 'em, you know, down so. He can't keep doing it while Gavir, you know, I'm not his mom, I can't light. I ain't no more anything, you know? And she was like, he's got to be in the terrible suit, so you guys are like, understand? But I'm like, all right, but I'm used to my door, you know, you know, sleep and schedule, I'm not used to, you know. You might have asked my mom, I don't watch her, so I look at him as his team. He's my own child, 'cause she don't want to start, you know, paying me. His little mom was bleeding on the side. He was fine with our plans, everything was cool. After that, I had made them down the sleeve. While they dinner, I did check up on them, I've seen it, 'cause I was like, when are they? I'm like, nah, you know, I'm sleep like this. And I thought he was having a seizure. I thought, I thought, I thought, okay, something is wrong, I'm going to eat that stuff earlier. Jay had a came in, and he was like, one hour and one, and I didn't know, so, what would he do then? The way his body was moving, I've never seen that thing like that. Paramedic pain, now it's going to be strong, now I'm supposed to let it keep me posted. He never taught me every six, how do you like it going in these? I think they're, should I say them? They don't know responsible, that's not the case, I was there the whole house. Do you feel like it to blame? So I had to, like, watch my child, it's like, I'm going to be like, what were you doing this whole time? I'm going to slow time here, that's near, quick step. I was trying to start a day curing, I'm all in it. I don't think she's going to ever forget, I think all of her is trying to make sure everything is okay. The part is more than her friend answered, but the way she was like, talking to me is like, they had trust meeting me more, like, so Kairi was already down for the night when she got home. Yeah, it was, like, kind of like, mad at each other, and he was mad, I was like still trying to take, like, five minutes, you know, sleep, to then what'd you do with the soap? I still have the soap. Where did you put it then? It's in the back. I feel more. There's a degree of trauma I think is from physical injury, wasn't the result of eating soap. He has trauma to the brain. And y'all think that I did it, I never, ever, we're not saying that you're in my eye surgery. Not at all. What are you saying that I did? You got it. You're saying that I did something. I do. Did you pick them off? Did you shake them? Did you really go, my guys, how are you? Why did you eat that soap? We shake it. We grab it now or in order. Put them down. I have them under all the time, like, she and she and he are perfectly fine. I'll finally be able to wear the day even though she's kind of proud of you for getting to this point and just taking ownership and just saying, hey, what's up? We're going to work through this. OK. For nearly an hour, Kamora continues to downplay her actions. Investigators eventually bring in a baby doll, hoping to get a clear demonstration of what exactly happened to Kyrie. We're out of the home. She would not let me dig it out. As to get down, he did his head again. He had his head, ran again, came back again. He was just looking in the, I'm just like digging out the soap. So in my mind, it's kind of spit it out because of case disgusting. There had to be some pretty significant force. I'll be like, real time, how it happened. We need to call it just like that. Like spit it out. I'm like spit it out. I'll spit it out. I'll spit it out. I'm like, why would you do that? This cycle repeats, investigators explain that Kyrie's injuries medically indicate greater force. And with each retelling, Kamora admits to increasingly violent actions. Eventually, she reaches the height of her confession. Enter into the bathroom. You knew that that caused that, right? After that, I mean, I've been able to play it, but he was like, it was just tireless. I don't even stand up, you know, just keep it both, both. He kept laying down, was he falling down, or was he just laying down? He kept falling down. I was thinking of it the more he keeps telling me, I think, I think that's better. You took out from your frustration, I have. I would never do that. Well, you did, though. We can't undo the past, but in the present, we can take accountability and just say, this is what I did. I was angry. I was not angry at all. It was more of my soul. I know. I can do it. I can do it. I can do it. I know. I can do it. I can do it. Okay. You know, I'm answering more questions. Quarrel, listen, I'm here for you. I think that's a no-one buzzer. That's it. What do you think about it? This moment becomes crucial in the soon-to-developed jury trial. Defense will successfully argue Komor and vote her Miranda rights, barring the remainder of the interrogation from the jury and contributing two years of legal delays. Regardless, Midwest safety has obtained the full interview, including the most damning statements jurors never saw. "Maybe I hit him too hard, but I'm gonna say my arrow, it was my fault, you guys just say, let me know what I have to do for you here, do you feel all the better at least that you're sharing us?" "Yeah, but just like, I know you're just a kid, but it happens, I'm playing, you're just like, I cannot hate this anymore. You need to stop. You need to shut up. You know? If you don't understand the lie, you leave me alone. If you end up out, it's gonna make you feel better. What do you mean if everybody was ready? Do you feel like you're off? You know? Maybe it was too rough. Well, there is no maybe. The injuries are way beyond that. They're very brave of you to own up to that. That's like the first step. That's awesome. - Is it really? - It really is. My anger does get out of hand, they do. Thank you for saying it. It comes out of the juice in a lot of nowhere. And then when he was trying to keep me down, he was saying, "Acting like you've opened up the house "and it was really me." - Notice that there was like a ton of bulls and the doors and the walls. - So it was really, all of those, every single one. I do his things, I do his things. - That was that part of his life. - There you are. - You're not. You feel bad that you weren't the child out of anger. You're at least acknowledging that, right? Have you ever heard your daughter? I heard her one phone saying that it was like very hard. I didn't hear her get the heart. Us big girls are looking at it. You've never gotten to anger where you just want to hit her. Like you just went, "Hurry." They might not have anyone but child over it. They might do that. I want to have fun to be alone. Every time I don't listen to us though, bad things happen. - Do you sound like you're attached to us? - Bad things happen if I don't listen. Can you show me like, if you don't like, I did, as hard as I could, if one of them tried to spin me, please. - And don't cry. - Please don't cry. - I know. - Give me a love, I can't. - The only way you did it is a baby. 'Cause you're on my head. You're showing me like this. No, that is not what's going to happen. You had to shake that baby. He did hit the cabinet. Okay. You just broke down on the ground. What happened? This is not going to cause those injuries. This is going to cause those injuries. So show me what you did to that baby. Do you understand what I'm saying? Those injuries are hurtful, violent injuries. It was just like that. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It was just like what? I was doing exactly what you did. That's what you did? - What do you mean like you normally do? - What do you mean like a boy, like you know a little brother, what did you do with him upside down? - Nothing, this shaco. - What I do is broken them up a little bit. - Why did I do that, you can't pull it fully. - I didn't know, let's do it. - Okay, that's what I said. I don't have to show you, I don't have to do it. I said this is so tough. - You said yes, it's harder, you got it. - From this position, like well. - You might get it. - Oh, that's all I did. [laughter] - That's our warning. - What is it? - It's a fucking lady, man. - What is it? - It's not to put a hole in the wall. - You touched a lot of wall, so you know. - How many times do you see your dead time? - Oh, four times. - Four times. - Four times. - Four times. - That's the first time it was paused. And the second, then the third, the fourth, that's our huck in my hand back. So they told me, fortunately, we fitted out and I'll be just shaking up just so he can light. Remember not to put a foot in his mouth anymore. Your anger just overwhelms you in that moment from the right. The court process will take well over three years. For Kyrie's mom Taylor, those years involved unimaginable grief. Several years later, she was able to candidly share her story and rebuild her life. According to Taylor, she was forced out of her adoptive home at 18. And with help from friends, eventually secured her first apartment as a single mother. Kimora lived in the apartment directly above Taylor and the two met in passing. Near her became like really close but y'all be questioning like the type of character she was like She was really really good with her daughter I've seen how she used to be able to do things for her daughter that I couldn't do for my son because I was too busy trying to work So I'm like this is a good opportunity. I'm like just I served at night I could bring him up to you and then me and you we could just split my tips So that way you could save your own money She was like yeah, that'll work and that was easier for me because now I wouldn't have to find a way to drop him off Every single day I had the word because I still didn't have a card. She was really really good my son like She was sending pictures of him all day long really taught my son how to count really good She taught my son his ABC's like she was really evolved my - My son would be really like each other family now. And so it's not like she was just, like this sort of person this whole time, which she probably was, I just didn't see it. - Over the course of roughly two months, this arrangement seemingly went smoothly, but Taylor started noticing red flags. - I go pick him up and he had like a bruise on his arm. And it was just a little odd to me that she didn't tell me. She was like, oh, it was nothing. He had got his arm stuck in a crit. And I'm trusting her that I'm not really even seeing it. That we're like, pick my son up one night. And his lip is like really, really bruised. Like swollen. And I asked her, then like, why aren't you calling me? Why aren't you telling me something had happened to him? She was like, oh, it was he was playing in a tub and he slipped and failed. And me being me being as young and naive as I was at the time I believed her. So then I started relying on my other friends to like just come over my apartment where I go to work, but she was still watching him. Like when I really couldn't get nobody else to watch him. - Taylor then shares her perspective on the night Kyrie was rushed to the hospital. - Got my mom serving where she shouldn't job. I get a text from her. Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna be able to watch him anymore because he's becoming too much. Like he's so sneaky. He keep getting into stuff. You need to really try to find somebody else. So then she sent me another text around like 10 o'clock. I think it was like, yeah, this is what I mean. He ate some soap while he in the tub. I had to dig it out his mouth. I can't watch him no more this night. Okay, well I get off soon and go get my baby. Send me a letter of text at 1 in the morning. She sent me a text of my baby's face. His whole side of his face was bruised up. Like she was like, I think he's having a alleged reaction from the soap I had to dig out his mouth earlier. So I got in front of way home and like I told you, I did not have no car. I started panicking. Luckily it was a genuine nice man sitting at the bar and he was like, I'll take you there. Right now I take him to your baby. And when I walked in the apartment, I see my baby laying on her kitchen floor, just twitching like he was having like seizures whatever and one of his eyes was like popped out. Like it was and I'm screaming his name, like carry, carry, carry mama here. And he's not responded to me at all. I just snapped into like a traumatic type like most. She would just hold on me and hug him. Like tell her you gotta be strong for him. He's gonna be okay, everything gonna be okay. You gotta be strong for your baby, he needs you, he needs you. You can't act like this right now. Five minutes later, it felt like a century. The ambulance put up. Taylor shares EMTs and hospital staff wouldn't tell her details of her son's condition and eventually brought her to a chapel room to tell her Kyrie suffered physical trauma. She then took out her phone to show the text messages between her and Kamora. - She was blowing up my phone, blowing up my Instagram DMs. I'm just like tell her she okay, tell her she okay. Keep me updated. I can't believe I let this happen in my care. I just wanna make sure he's okay. I didn't think he would get into no soap like that. The surgeon comes into the chapel room. I'm about to take your son into immediate surgery right now, or he's going to die within it before the night is over it. And if I do be able to save him, there's a 100% chance possible he's gonna be paralyzed for the rest of his life. He won't be the same ever again. Telling me that my little boy, my little baby, he's never gonna be the same again. Just the morning before I was kissing my son, now the next morning my son is in hospital fighting for his life. I see my son with so many wires and tubes connected to him. I just lost it like I just started breaking down. - For eight days, Taylor stayed by her son's side as he went in and out of surgery. - He's not breathing on his own. He's not showing no activity. No branch of him. My son was just struggling for me to even get to this point where we got our own place. What was I working to job for? What was I getting an apartment for? It was like, what am I doing all of this? For if I'm about to just lose my babies. I didn't want to keep pulling my baby through unnecessary measures. Now, the whole day I had to prepare myself and he took his last breath when I unplugged the tube and he passed. So after I had the autopsy done on my son, it was telling me like she must have hit him really, really hard and that she must have threw him against the wall or something like that because the brain started rocking back and forth when it made it start bleeding and swelling from the damage that she did to him. They told me that it happened hours before he got to the hospital. So it was a chance that my baby could have been saved. She let my baby stand her apartment suffering and she came up with this whole little story. After her arrest, Kamora faced one count of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree child abuse. She maintained a not guilty plea. Even without Kamora's strongest confessions being admitted as evidence, she was found guilty on all charges. She was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole plus 15 to 40 years for first-degree child abuse. She will spend the rest of her life behind bars. If you would like to donate, an active GoFundMe for Taylor is available in the description below. I'm thankful and I'm blessed that I'm able to have another baby right now. I don't know what I've done to deserve it after losing him, but I'm grateful when I'm thankful for that. But for ever, no matter what, that's going to be my first baby, my first love, my first everything. Like, I will never forget my son, Carrie.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. A one-year-old boy, Kyrie, was found unconscious in his apartment after being injured, with signs of severe physical trauma and brain bleeding.
  2. The mother, Taylor, initially believed the injuries were from accidental soap ingestion, but hospital reports revealed violent physical abuse, including head trauma and possible shaking.
  3. Babysitter Kamora, who had been watching Kyrie for weeks, admitted under interrogation to violently shaking him and forcing him to ingest soap, which led to severe injury.
  4. Forensic and testimonial evidence, including text messages and a baby doll demonstration, confirmed Kamora’s account of violent actions, culminating in a full confession.
  5. Despite her Miranda rights being invoked by defense, Kamora was found guilty of first-degree murder and child abuse, receiving a life sentence without parole.
  6. Taylor, the mother, suffered deep emotional trauma, lost her son during surgery, and later rebuilt her life, emphasizing the abuse and her unrelenting grief.
  7. Investigators established a timeline placing the abuse around 10 p.m., with Kamora's alibi being inconsistent and her actions directly linked to Kyrie’s injuries.
  8. The case highlights the dangers of babysitting arrangements, the importance of reporting red flags, and the long-term impact of child abuse on families.

Summary:

A one-year-old boy, Kyrie, was found unconscious in his apartment after suffering severe physical injuries, including brain trauma and signs of shaking. His mother, Taylor, had been relying on babysitter Kamora to care for him for weeks. Initially, Taylor believed the injuries resulted from Kyrie ingesting soap, but hospital reports revealed violent abuse.

, with Kamora admitting under interrogation to shaking and forcing the child to eat soap. Text messages, witness accounts, and a baby doll demonstration confirmed her violent actions. Despite defense efforts to exclude her statements due to Miranda rights, Kamora was found guilty of first-degree murder and child abuse, receiving a life sentence without parole.

Taylor, traumatized by the loss, shared her experience of grief, neglect, and the failure of trust. The case underscores the critical dangers of unmonitored childcare, the importance of recognizing red flags, and the long-term emotional toll on families. Though the legal process took over three years, Taylor has since rebuilt her life and expressed gratitude for her new child, forever haunted by the loss of Kyrie.

FAQs

Kyrie ate soap while in the tub, which caused severe physical trauma. Investigators found signs of violent shaking and impact, including bruising and brain injuries, indicating physical abuse. He was rushed to the hospital where he underwent emergency brain surgery due to life-threatening injuries.

Camara, the babysitter, admitted to physically abusing Kyrie by shaking him violently after he ate soap. Her statements during interrogation, including actions described in a baby doll demonstration, showed a pattern of forceful behavior that matched the medical evidence of severe trauma.

Camara downplayed her actions and claimed she only tried to remove the soap from Kyrie’s mouth and did not harm him. Over time, during repeated questioning, she admitted to shaking him and acknowledged the violent force involved in the incident.

Taylor was the primary caregiver and became alarmed when she noticed bruising on Kyrie’s body and when Camara failed to inform her of incidents. She later found out that Camara had not shared the details of Kyrie’s injuries and that he was suffering from physical abuse.

Medical evidence showed signs of severe brain trauma and physical abuse. Camara’s inconsistent statements, her admission of shaking the child during questioning, and a baby doll demonstration where she mimicked the violent actions all supported the conclusion of abuse.

Yes, Camara was arrested and found guilty of first-degree murder and first-degree child abuse. Despite claiming not guilty, the court accepted evidence of her guilty actions, and she was sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 15 to 40 years for child abuse.

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