Detectives suspect prior abuse in infant’s death
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Investigators believe a Mount Washington man accused of killing a 5-month-old baby abused the infant multiple times before she died in December 2014.
The allegations of prior abuse surfaced in an interrogation video played Thursday during the fourth day of the trial for Kenneth Reeves, 31, who is charged with homicide in the death of Kamero Newton.
The infant, called Kami by her family, died four days after suffering a serious brain injury Dec. 6, 2014. Her mother, Julie Vojtash, testified Monday that she left Reeves, whom she was dating, alone with Kami for a few minutes, heard the baby cry in discomfort, and ran upstairs to find Reeves standing over the crib.
When she asked what happened, he told her he didn’t know, she said. Kami lost consciousness a few minutes later and never recovered.
The trial before Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge David R. Cashman began Monday and is expected to last into next week.
On Thursday, prosecutors played about half of a taped twohour police interrogation of Reeves. On the video, Pittsburgh police detectives tell Reeves that children in the home described two instances of prior abuse of Kami.
A girl told investigators that she saw Reeves pick Kami up and swing her around by her ankle