Missouri Woman Charged in the Beating Death of 1-Year-Old Son
A slain one-year old boy’s mother will be charged with second-degree murder in the child’s death. Prosecutors in St. Louis County, Missouri, charged the child’s mother, Shelby Dasher, with the death after the medical examiner determined that the child died from multiple blunt force truama. The child’s body was found a mile from his home in a wooded area.
Dasher initially told investigators she had not seen the child since putting him to bed the night before he went missing. According to the prosecutor, Dasher admitted during the interrogation that she repeatedly struck the baby.
In California, murder is codified under Penal Code Section 187. It stated in pertinent part that “murder is the unlawful killing of a human being…with malice aforethought.” If convicted of Penal Code 187 as second-degree murder, you face 15 years-to-life in state prison.
Second-degree murder commonly arises in circumstances where the person uses a deadly weapon in a fight that results in a death, shoots a gun into a crowded room and someone dies as a result, or drives a car in an extremely dangerous way that results in the death of another.
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