Summer Kazzee claimed that when she put her 9-month-old daughter into an old car seat for a nap, she was "rocking herself to sleep." When the mother returned, however, she was unresponsive and had the buckle in her mouth.
The baby, Yazeem Jenkins, was shot in the head and chest after authorities say his father, Nafes Monroe, brought him to a drug buy in which he attempted to use counterfeit money.
Actress Aisling Moore-Reed was initially charged with manslaughter in the 2016 death of her uncle, Shane Moore, but those charges were upgraded police discovered cell phone footage of his shooting.
“There was only one way to enjoy his retirement and his new love affair ... that was to kill his wife,” Assistant Hampden District Attorney Mary Sandstrom said at a bail hearing for Brian Fanion Thursday.
It wasn't immediately clear that Edwin Bastidas' sons Jonathan and Nicolas were the victims of foul play, but investigators eventually determined their deaths to be suspicious.
Michael Barnett and his ex-wife Kristine Barnett face neglect charges for leaving their adopted daughter Natalia on her own while they moved to Canada in 2013. They claim she's an adult masquerading as a child, but she maintains she's just 16.
The gruesome discovery in New York City comes the same week Jennifer Schlecht planned to file for an order of protection against her estranged husband, Yonathan Tedla.
