Parents Charged in 6-Month-Old Child’s Death
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A pair of Chester County parents are behind bars accused of killing their 6-month-old son. “I can not understand it, have four kids myself,” said Chester County Sheriff Blair Weaver. According to Weaver, investigators were called to a Jackson hospital in April about an unusual death of a 6-month-old child. Months later, autopsy results proved what investigators already knew. “Complications from chronic malnutrition, the baby starved to death,” said Weaver. At birth, Weaver said the infant boy, named Clever, weighed 7 pounds, a healthy weight for a new born baby. However, at his death he weighed just under 10 pounds, a gain of about 2 and a half pounds in six months. “I cannot understand how somebody could leave a baby laying there and not feed it,” Weaver said. According to the medical examiner’s office, the baby had zero percent body fat and was full of stool at the time of the autopsy. At the center of the department’s investigation is Stephanie McCarley, 22, of Chester County. According to investigators, she neglected to care for her child, leaving him to sleep on an ironing board with sheets soaked in urine, neglected for months. “There was food in the home and diapers, she just was not feeding him,” Weaver said. McCarley does have a criminal history, but Weaver could not be specific about her previous charges. However, he said she knew how to lie. “No, I do not think she was telling the total truth none of the time,” said Weaver. McCarley and the baby’s father, Devin “Jay” Davis, 33, of Chester County, are charged with first degree murder and especially aggravated child abuse. They were officially charged in a Chester County Court, Tuesday morning. They remain behind bars in lieu of a $250,000 bond each. McCarley’s two other children are in state custody.
