“MY DAUGHTER CHOKED ON A BANANA”!!! BELIEVE IT OR NOT, PROSECUTORS SAY FORMER ARMY SOLDIER JEANIE KASSANDRA DITTY KILLED HER TWO-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER WITH AT LEAST FORTY BLOWS… AND SHE HAS NOW RECEIVED LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE.
On August 20, 33-year-old Jeanie Kassandra Ditty was sentenced to spend the rest of her life in prison.
The former Army soldier was convicted of killing her two-year-old daughter, Macy Grace Ditty.
The child died after suffering at least 40 blows.
On December 2, 2015, paramedics were dispatched to treat an unresponsive toddler.
Paramedics rushed Macy to a hospital in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
She arrived unresponsive.
Hospital medical workers examined the two-year-old and uncovered extensive physical trauma.
Medical staff found bruises across her body.
They found scrapes across her body.
Testing revealed bleeding inside the toddler’s brain.
Medical workers also found swelling inside her brain.
Macy had suffered retinal hemorrhaging.
She had sustained mouth injuries.
Medical staff also discovered a lacerated liver.
Prosecutors said Macy suffered the fatal brain injuries during the previous eight to 24 hours.
Ditty was the only caregiver with access to the child during that window.
Doctors placed Macy on life support.
They kept the toddler on life support for two days.
Her father was a soldier serving overseas.
The medical team kept Macy on life support so her father could return and say goodbye.
Macy died only 10 days before her third birthday.
Exactly one month later, Ditty contacted photographer Sunny Jo.
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She told him that Macy choked on a banana.
Ditty said the toddler suffered seizures.
She stated that Macy lost oxygen to her brain.
Ditty requested fake “afterlife” photos showing them together again.
Believing he was helping a grieving mother, Jo created the edited photos for free.
The images showed Ditty holding hands with a ghostlike image of Macy.
The photos also showed Ditty reading with the ghostlike image of her daughter.
But Jo later called the project the biggest mistake of his career.
At trial, jurors heard testimony from 16 witnesses.
The jury deliberated for less than three hours.
Jurors convicted Ditty of first-degree murder.
They also convicted her of felony child abuse.
The court sentenced Ditty to life without parole for the murder.
And she received an additional consecutive sentence of 157 to 201 months for child abuse.
Ditty immediately filed an appeal.
Yet while free awaiting this retrial, Ditty was charged with allegedly abusing another two-year-old daughter.
That pending warrant accuses Ditty of striking the child’s face.
The warrant accuses her of striking the child’s head.
The warrant accuses her of cutting the bridge of the child’s nose.
The warrant accuses her of injuring the child’s eye.
The warrant accuses Ditty of subjecting the child to ongoing physical abuse.
The warrant also accuses her of subjecting the toddler to unsafe treatment.
The charges are allegations and have not been proven in court.
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