Insets (left to right): Kevin McCall and Christina Davis (Milwaukee County Sheriff”s Office). Background: The apartment complex in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where their baby was found dead (Google Maps).
A Wisconsin couple has pleaded guilty after their 1-year-old died in their apartment.
Kevin McCall, 30, and Christina Davis, 23, both pleaded guilty this month to charges in connection with the death of their 1-year-old baby, who died after being found unresponsive in their Milwaukee, Wisconsin, apartment on Feb. 22. Davis pleaded guilty on Oct. 15 to two misdemeanor counts of neglecting a child and was sentenced to 18 months’ probation.
McCall pleaded guilty on Monday to one felony count of neglecting a child; a second count was dismissed but read in.
According to criminal complaints reviewed by Law&Crime, police responded to a call on the afternoon of Feb. 22 about a “pulseless nonbreathing child” at an apartment complex in Milwaukee. When police arrived, McCall and Davis were on the front porch with the baby, who was taken to a hospital. Medical staff tried to revive the baby, but told police rigor mortis was already setting in, and the baby was pronounced dead.
At around 2 p.m., Davis left work and returned home to find her 6-year-old daughter standing in the corner as punishment for apparently stealing the TV remote. McCall told police that he also “whooped” the girl. While McCall was fixing a video game controller, he asked Davis to check on the baby. When Davis found the baby, police wrote that the infant was “stiff” with its eyes rolling back into its head. Davis told McCall to call 911.
Both Davis and McCall admitted to police that they never fed or checked on the baby that day, nor did they change the baby’s diaper.
A detective spoke to the 6-year-old girl at the family’s apartment. She told the detective that McCall and Davis often asked her to babysit the 1-year-old and would leave the two children home by themselves. The girl told the detective that the day before the baby died, she saw her mother make a bottle for the baby that included “medicine” that would make the baby “pass out.” She showed the detective the “medicine,” which was a 50 mL bottle of Fireball whiskey.
Davis denied ever giving the baby alcohol. She reportedly admitted that she and McCall left their two children by themselves in the apartment “at least once or twice a week” for about an hour and a half at a time.
Davis told police that she depended on her 6-year-old to help her around the home because McCall “does not provide any assistance.”
McCall is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 18.
