Hearing for one of defendants accused of killing 3-year-old is Sept. 17

No trial date yet set for mother and boyfriend accused of killing 3-year-old girl

The little girl known in court records only as “NB” sustained “significant bruising to her body,” including her face, upper mid and lower chest, abdomen, back, sides, buttocks, arms, legs.

In addition to broken bones — some of them recent, others in varying stages of healing — the 3-year-old girl had sustained bleeding in her head, bruising to her pancreas, and internal bleeding from cuts to her kidneys and adrenal glands.

Now the second-degree murder cases against the girl’s mother, Tatiana Baker, and her boyfriend, Demarco Jackson, are moving through the system.

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No trial dates have yet been set, though Jackson had a case setting hearing at 1 p.m. Sept. 2 in courtroom GA of the RJC. Baker’s hearing is at 1 p.m. Sept. 17 in courtroom GA. Baker and Jackson were arraigned separately on June 25.

The Auburn Police Detective’s affidavits, on which the charges are based, allege that Baker and Jackson had beaten the child on June 9. Although in the early afternoon they called 911, they allegedly misled police, medics and firefighters as to their whereabouts, and over the course of the seven crucial hours that passed before medics and police could get to the child, failed to give her medical aid.

According to the affidavits, they also allegedly lied to detectives repeatedly in the ensuing investigation.

“N.B. was a defenseless toddler,” Prosecuting Attorney Wyman Yip told a Superior Court judge at the bail hearings in June. “(The toddler) suffered severe and repeated physical abuse at the hands of the defendant and the defendant’s boyfriend. After beating 3-year-old N.B. until her body went limp and she lost consciousness, the defendant and her boyfriend were more concerned with themselves. … Instead of seeking medical attention for N.B., the defendant and her boyfriend cleaned the crime scene, disposed of evidence, and intentionally mislead police in order to save their own hides.”