COSHOCTON, Ohio (WCMH) — A babysitter has been arrested in the death of an infant more than two and a half years later.
On Monday, the Coshocton County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of Kristin L. Neff, 36, of Coshocton, who was the infant’s babysitter at the time. The sheriff’s office announced Tuesday that Neff was formally charged with child endangerment, a third-degree felony.
Neff is accused in the death of then-15-month-old Graclynn Young on Aug. 10, 2021. The sheriff’s office credited “additional forensic information” as to why deputies arrested Neff on Monday.
The child was in Neff’s care when, according to Graclynn’s mother Cheyene Untied, Neff sent a message to Untied that Graclynn was sick and running a 101-degree fever.
”I called her when she said it was 101 again, and I said ‘What’s going on?’ And that’s when she told me she couldn’t talk because she needed to call 911. That Graclynn wasn’t breathing,” Untied said in an interview with NBC4 in January 2022.
An autopsy report revealed that Graclynn suffered a skull fracture caused by blunt force trauma, an injury estimated to have happened between three and four hours before the child died.
As of Tuesday, Neff was being held in the Coshocton County Justice Center on $75,000 cash or surety bond.