Infant's death, investigation leads to warrant for arrest

— An eight-month investigation into the death of an infant led the Grady County District Attorney's office to issue a warrant Tuesday for the arrest of a 27-year-old Blanchard woman.

Court documents show that charges filed against Kasey Duverney include one felony count of child neglect and one felony count of second degree manslaughter.

Information filed by Michael Francis, an investigator with the District Six District Attorney's Office, states that Duverney failed to provide the proper care and supervision of the child by placing him in a bed which was not safe for an infant. She was responsible for him while her boyfriend, the baby's father, had gone to work.

Francis said that while in the bed, Trevor squirmed into a position where he ultimately suffocated and died.

Records show that the baby's parents were going through a divorce during March and April and the father had left the home and moved to the home of his girlfriend, Duverney.

On April 9, the mother allowed her estranged husband to have a scheduled overnight visit with Trevor. He had repeatedly reassured the mother that he had an appropriate children's crib for the baby to sleep in while in his custody.

At about 5:40 p.m. Duverney called the Grady County 911 dispatcher and advised that "the baby is dead." Records show that she told the dispatcher she found Trevor hanging from the bed stuck between the bed railing and the mattress. When emergency workers arrived on scene they were unable to save him.

The medical examiner ruled the cause of death as mechanical asphyxiation caused by being caught between a bed railing and the mattress. Documents state that according to witness statements, the bed was not a safe children's crib. It was a modified single bed frame with a board running along the side.

Francis said that as Trevor's temporary caregiver, Duverney committed child neglect when she failed to provide for the proper care and supervision of the baby and placed him in an unsafe adult bed where his injury led to his death.

Upon conviction of child neglect, the crime is punishable by imprisonment up to life in the Department of Corrections or by up to one-year in the county jail or by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $5,000, or both such fine and imprisonment.

Upon conviction of second-degree manslaughter, the crime is punishable by imprisonment for two to four years in the penitentiary or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year or a fine of up to $1,000 or both.

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