Jellisa Baxter Allegedly Stabbed 3-Year-Old Girl To Death

A 24-year-old Florida girl has been charged with first diploma homicide and aggravated youngster abuse after she known as 911 and allegedly admitted to stabbing her three-year-old daughter to dying. 

Jellisa Amoya Baxter spoke to a dispatcher round 2:00 a.m. on Dec. 27 and stated “I just killed my daughter,” in keeping with a 911 tape obtained by NBC Miami.

“When asked how she killed her daughter, the [defendant] replied she strangled her at first, but when that didn’t work, she stabbed her in the chest and neck,” North Miami Police said in an arrest affidavit.

Baxter was carrying a white bathrobe when she answered the door for arriving officers, in keeping with her arrest affidavit, and led them to her daughter’s physique on the ground of the lounge. The toddler was reportedly riddled with “deep stab wounds” to the chest, neck and face and pronounced useless on the scene.

“The knife was located next to the victim’s body,” the affidavit states.

Baxter was denied bond at her first look earlier than a decide on Wednesday and is at the moment being held on the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, in keeping with NBC Miami. She faces an immigration maintain out of Jamaica, the outlet reported. 

She was reportedly served an eviction discover a number of days earlier than the killing, the station added.

Baxter’s stepfather Harold Hemmings advised the outlet that he’d met up together with her and her youngster as soon as final yr after her organic mom died from most cancers.

“She didn’t seem like a bad momma to me,” stated Hemmings. “You know, she seemed like she was a good mother.”

He added that he did not know why Baxter would kill her youngster. 

“She’s sick,” Hemmings stated. “That’s all I can say, she’s sick.”

Baxter is scheduled to be arraigned in January, in keeping with CBS Miami.

The North Miami Beach Police Department didn’t reply to Oxygen.com‘s request for remark.

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