Look Who it Was Random video

Accused Baby Killer

320 views · Published 1 November 2012 · 2:14 · Indexed 1 November 2026

Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2012 · News & Politics

Watch on YouTube

by John Pless  New details are revealed in Hamilton County General Sessions Court Tuesday during the preliminary hearing of a woman accused of killing her baby niece.Detectives said Jessica Fax changed her story about what happened -- a story they said doesn't add up.Fax is charged with the homicide of her niece, 12-week-old Mia Fry. The baby died during the early morning hours of October 9.Testimony shows Fax was staying at her in-laws' Harrison house, babysitting their three children while they worked overnight shifts. When Jeremy Fry came home the next morning he noticed Mia wasn't moving and felt cold to the touch."I was coming down the hall, went Oh no, no, no, no," Fry recalled while fighting tears. "My wife started coming down the hall and I told her to call 911 and I brought my daughter into the living room and started to do CPR."Hamilton County paramedics arrived and pronounced Mia dead.The Fry's and Hamilton County investigators initially thought it may be a case of SIDS - sudden infant death syndrome. But after a couple days the medical examiner called detective Richard Whaley to the Hamilton County Forensic Center.When Assistant District Attorney General Charles Minor asked Det. Whaley what he saw in the exam room Det. Whaley said "severe trauma to the skull, spider web cracks, like eggshells, cracks on the left side and one major crack that ran almost to the top of the infant's head."Fax initially told the Fry's and investigators she had no idea about what happened to Mia and that she appeared healthy and normal when she went to bed the night before.But after being interviewed for two hours by Det. Whaley her story changed."After she was told the child died of blunt force trauma to the skull she stated she had been holding the child in her lap, sitting on the sofa, and dropped the child on the floor," Det. Whaley said.Det. Whaley testified the baby's injuries are not consistent with such a short fall on a thickly padded carpet. He also said Fax's story about feeding Mia before putting her to bed didn't add up either because the autopsy shows she had nothing in her stomach.The case now goes to the Hamilton County Grand Jury. Fax remains in jail on a 25,000 bond.

More from this channel