From the Harford County State’s Attorney’s Office:
On February 27, 2014, Kayla Marie Barker, 25 of Aberdeen, was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison for First Degree Child Abuse Resulting in Serious Injury by Judge Stephen M. Waldron.
Barker had been found guilty by a jury in January of abusing her nine month old daughter by repeatedly beating her on the head causing multiple skull fractures. The defendant inflicted those injuries because the child would not stop crying. The child was treated at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center and then at Johns Hopkins pediatric intensive care unit. Barkerhad initially delayed taking the child to the hospital for several hours in an effort to avoid questioning by Child Protective Services, resulting in an additional conviction for Neglect of a Minority. Judge Waldron imposed a five year sentence on that count to run concurrently.
The child’s paternal aunt, who now has custody of the child, spoke at the sentencing hearing, advising the court that the child, now 2 ½ years old, does have developmental and behavioral problems as a result of the abuse.
The case was handled by Deputy State’s Attorney Diana A. Brooks and investigated by the Harford County Child Advocacy Center, Detective Carey Gerres was the lead investigator and was assisted by Detective Joe Dugan.
Throw away the key on that dirt bag
I was going to say, Our spineless judges let another one go free. My respect’s are payed to Judge Waldron. keep up the good work.
String em up
that would be too good for her. I hope she has time to think about what she did to the innocent child. Hopefully, the child, not her daughter (she lost that title when she abused the poor child), grows up and has nothing to do with this waste of a human life.
So far so good.. she is an amazing little girl.
Throw away the key for sure. CaseSearch website shows this subhuman piece of trash has been a drag on the court system for years for criminal, drug and traffic charges. 25 years should give the child it’s best chance.
It’s terrible that so many people struggle just to get pregnant and we have people like this running around.
The child now has developmental problems. This animal took that child’s chances of ever leading a normal happy life away because the baby did what babies do. 25 years(of which she’ll probably do 15 or less) to sit in a climate controlled environment, be served three hot meals, exercise, watch tv, get an education, go to church and claim to have found Jesus and socialize with other shit bags on our dime just doesn’t seem like that’s all that fair to that baby. Not a knock on the judge but in my eyes she’s getting off easy.
No doubt the mother will still get visits, even while in jail, and her parental rights are likely still in tact.
Wrong… she will not being seeing her child for a very long time.