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Iesha Harris (Detroit Police Dept.) and Harmoni Henderson (GoFundMe)

Iesha Harris (Detroit Police Dept.) and Harmoni Henderson (GoFundMe)

A 30-year-old mother in Michigan is accused of killing her friend’s 3-year-old child while babysitting, allegedly beating the little girl to death because the victim threw up on herself.

Iesha Harris was taken into custody last week and charged with one count of felony murder and one count of first-degree child abuse in the violent death of young Harmoni Henderson, authorities announced.

According to a news release from the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, officers with the Detroit Police Department at about 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 17, responded to a residence in the 15700 block of Southfield Freeway. Prosecutors said that Harris was a longtime friend of Harmoni’s mother and had been babysitting the child when the victim suffered her fatal injuries.

Harmoni was privately transported to a local hospital for treatment, but succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead. Authorities say that the cause of Harmoni’s death was “blunt force trauma caused by the defendant.”

Harris was formally charged and arrested on Wednesday, March 20. She is currently scheduled to appear in court for a probable cause conference on March 27 and a preliminary examination hearing on April 1. During the latter proceeding, prosecutors said “more complete facts and evidence will be placed on the record.”

Capt. Laurie Carter, the head of the Detroit Police Special Victims Unit, provided some additional details about the investigation into Harmoni’s death in an interview with Detroit NBC affiliate WDIV.

Carter was one of the officers who responded to the hospital where Harmoni’s mother and Harris had taken the victim.

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