Dead OKC boy had previous signs of abuse
Hours after her 1-year-old son died from "massive internal injuries,” 28-year-old Brandy Perry told police she had shoved down on his stomach because he wouldn’t stop squirming during a diaper change.
The Friday death of Onlabee Blaine was ruled by the state medical examiner’s office a homicide caused by blunt force trauma. Perry was arrested Saturday on complaints of child abuse and murder.
In an interview with detectives, Perry said she was mad and frustrated because Onlabee kept trying to roll over, and that even though she knew she had hurt him, she did not seek medical attention until she found him unresponsive two hours later, according to a probable cause affidavit filed Monday.
"If she didn’t want him ... if she didn’t want to be with him, then she could have gave him to me,” the toddler’s half-sister Starla Blaine, 24, said Monday. "She could have gave him to my brother. She could have gave him to my dad.”
Neighbors said they were shocked that the woman they saw walking up and down the street every day with a stroller is accused in the death of her child.
According to the affidavit, it was not the first time Perry hurt the boy.
About a month earlier, Perry "accidentally” hit Onlabee in the face with her hand, hard enough to cause his eye to swell and his face to turn black and blue from the bruising, the affidavit said.
She also admitted to police there were other times when she forcefully pushed down on the child’s abdomen while changing his diaper, and that she could have caused injury at those times.
"During the autopsy, there were healing rib fractures found on this child that would have been more than a week old,” police detective Tony Foreman wrote in the affidavit.
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Funeral services for Onlabee are scheduled for 1 p.m. today at John M. Ireland Funeral Home Chapel in Moore.