“You killed my daughter… You hurt my baby,” the distraught father of Aniya Day Garrett cried out to the defendants on trial for the childs murder. Euclid police and paramedics were called to an apartment complex on Lakeshore Blvd. on Sunday after receiving a 911 call that a child was unresponsive. Aniya was later pronounced dead at Euclid Hospital. The hospital reported her death as a suspected homicide and the medical examiner’s office confirmed the manner of death as a homicide. Sierra Day, Aniya’s mother and the mother’s boyfriend, Deonte Lewis, are both charged in her death and are being held on $1 million bail each. Family members said there were obvious signs the little girl was being abused and neglected according to the local news. station. Relatives say they warned Cuyahoga County Children and Family Services that the girl was in danger, but they claim nothing was done to save her. The agency confirms it was an active case at the time the little girl died, and says caseworkers visited the home three times and had a scheduled visit a few days after she was allegedly killed by Day and Lewis.
According to another report in the Daily Mail, Aniya Day-Garrett, four, died of a stroke after being severely beaten, she was malnourished and had rug burn marks on her feet and legs and had a badly bruised eye, a cut above her eyebrow and scalded legs. Sierra Day reportedly called 911 on the day Anyia died. “She’s been acting a little sick. We went to Red Lobster last week. I thought it was ’cause of that, ’cause she started acting weird; I thought it was like a stomach virus, something she ate, or whatever. I noticed at home, we start feeding her and she throws everything up.” Sierra Day tells the dispatcher her daughter’s flu-like symptoms started last Thursday. Day says she did not take her daughter to the doctor, but had just spoken to a 24-hour nurse. Shortly after that, Sierra Day tells the dispatcher that her daughter is not breathing, at which time the dispatcher instructs her to start CPR. Aniya Day was later pronounced dead at Euclid Hospital.
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