In a tragic situation out of Cecil County, Maryland, a young woman is behind bars, charged with murder after Maryland State Police say her five-week-old daughter was found dead inside her townhouse. According to Maryland police, the death followed a night in which the baby’s mother allegedly drank heavily and recorded a series of Snapchat videos while the infant cried nearby.
According to a local news outlet, the Cecil Daily, Destiny Faith Chiveral, 24, of Charlestown, Maryland, initially told police she had fallen asleep on a couch with her newborn beside her and later discovered the baby unresponsive, suggesting the infant may have slipped between couch cushions. Medical examiners, however, ruled the death a homicide after finding blunt-force trauma to the head, including bruising and internal bleeding that doctors said would not be caused by a simple fall from a couch.
