A 25-year-old West Virginia woman was charged last week with the death of a newborn who died while in her care last year.
Taylor Flint was arrested on Friday and charged with child neglect resulting in death in the October 25, 2025 death an 11-day-old boy she was watching, the Mason County Prosecuting Attorney said.
A criminal complaint says the baby was taken to the hospital before police arrived that day and that medical records showed he had “multiple traumatic injuries” to the head, face, and hands and “exhibited medical distress,” WOWK reported. The infant also had internal head injuries and skull fractures.
Efforts to save the baby were unsuccessful, and he went cardiac arrest and died.
Law&Crime reported that Flint was watching the baby because his mother was still hospitalized with complications from the birth. On October 25, she was watching the boy along with her own 3-year-old daughter, and told police she got up in the middle of the night to use the restroom and found the boy unresponsive. Her daugther was “in the bedroom hiding in a corner,” she said, adding that she believed the girl had beaten the boy with a jar of petroleum jelly.
The complaint said that Flint claimed to have seen her daughter hit, scratch and bite the boy in order to get attention. She claimed she had to be careful with the girl around the baby because of her anger and “undiagnosed neurological disorders.”
Flint was given a $100,000 bond at her arraignment and remains in custody awaiting a preliminary hearing.
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[Featured image: Taylor Flint/Mason County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office]
