Update: Deceased Girl, 6, Had Broken Bones, Healed Ligature Scars, and Burns; Court Appointed Arrested

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Susan Robinson, 61, is accused of intentionally inflicting serious physical injuries on a 6-year-old girl while providing care as an adult living in the household. The alleged injuries include wounds from a rash on the child's genitals and buttocks from prolonged exposure to urine and feces-filled diapers, broken bones, healed ligature scars, and burns.

Court records also allege Robinson allowed three children, including the deceased victim, to remain in a home on Gwynne Hill Road that was "unkempt, contains human and animal feces in each room of the residence, has no centralized heating source, and is infested with rats and cockroaches, which bite and cause harm."

The 6-year-old girl was taken to the hospital, where they were pronounced dead.

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6-year-old girl was forced to live in dog crate before her death, 3 suspects charged

Susan Robinson, 61, Tonya McKnight, 51, and Tery'n McKnight, 22, face child abuse charges after a 6-year-old girl was found dead at a home on Gwynne Hill Road.

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Robinson was a court appointed guardian

 

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A court-appointed guardian in North Carolina has been accused of fatally abusing a child she was ordered to take care of, with police saying she and two other adults living with her "duct taped" and starved the 6-year-old for over a year, as "punishment for many things," including eating. The girl was also "forced to stay in a dog crate," according to cops.

Susan Robinson, 61, was arrested Saturday and charged with one count of intentional child abuse resulting in serious physical injury and four counts of misdemeanor child abuse. The other adults in the Mecklenburg County household, Tonya McKnight and Tery'n McKnight, are wanted.

Police say the trio was living in horrid conditions with at least five children and was serving as their primary caregivers. The 6-year-old victim, Dominique Moody, died earlier this month and hospital staff reported she weighed only 27 pounds, according to an arrest affidavit. The other kids are ages 5, 4, 2, and 1.

"Tery'n McKnight, Susan Robinson, and Tonya McKnight … are the primary caregivers," the affidavit alleges. "The unkempt and inhospitable state of the residence, the children residing amongst rats and cockroaches, the children being bitten by rats, the residence's daily lack of heat, and the duct taping are well known to all three individuals."

According to police, photos obtained from a suspect's phone show Dominique "duct taped with black duct tape, her hands and feet swollen, lying on the carpeted area of the living room" before her death.

Robinson and the others allegedly abused Dominique for approximately a year and a half, doing things like forcing her to watch them eat as she sat in a "soiled, urine and feces-filled diaper for days and days," the affidavit says. The girl had an "extreme rash" because of this and was found to have multiple serious injuries, including wounds from the rash, broken bones, scars, and burns, according to police.

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6-year-old girl dies weighing 27 pounds while being forced to watch others in house eat: Cops

A court-appointed guardian in North Carolina has been accused of fatally abusing a child she was supposed to take care of, with cops saying she and two others "duct taped" and starved the 6-year-old.

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This ghoul below is Tonya McKnight

Tery'n McKnight is in the hospital after sadly surviving being hit by a truck. She will be arrested if released from the hospital.

 

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Now, a third woman, Tery'n McKnight, 22, who was arrested on Christmas Eve, faces the same suite of charges – and prosecutors are signaling they are not done charging the trio over the alleged abuse.

On Friday, during a hearing, a judge ruled the younger McKnight will remain in jail without bond pending trial, according to a courtroom report by Charlotte-based NBC affiliate WCNC.

Prosecutors also said they were considering murder charges.

On the morning of Dec. 16, 6-year-old Dominique Moody died. Police received a call earlier that day saying the girl was not breathing, according to an affidavit for criminal charges obtained by Law&Crime.

"The victim's hair, nails, and body were dirty," police wrote in the charging document. "She had open wounds and scarring in various stages of healing covering most of her body."

Officers say Tonya McKnight is responsible for duct-taping and wrapping the child in plastic wrap – abuse allegedly captured on cellphone images. The woman allegedly starved the little girl for over a year as "punishment for many things," including eating food in the house, according to law enforcement.

The charging document reads, at length:

She suggested that Dominique Moody is forced to watch them eat, and Tonya McKnight does not feed her every day, even though the house has plenty of food. She also advised that Dominique Moody is forced to sit in her soiled, urine and feces-filled diaper for days and days. This caused the extreme rash on Dominique's genitals and buttocks. This abuse/neglect was reported to have occurred for approximately 1.5 years.

At the time of her death, Dominique only weighed 27 pounds.

The girl had also been "forced to stay in a dog crate in the living room" before staying on "the feces-filled bathroom floor," police said.

The oldest defendant, along with the youngest – who is Tonya McKnight's daughter – are both accused of "failure to take any action to remedy the problems caused by Tonya McKnight." All three woman lived in the house on Gwynne Hill Road in Charlotte along with four other children between the ages of 5, 4, 2, and 1, authorities say. The placement and condition of the other children is not yet a matter of public record.

"The unkempt and inhospitable state of the residence, the children residing amongst rats and cockroaches, the children being bitten by rats, the residence's daily lack of heat, and the duct taping are well known to all three individuals," the affidavit alleges.

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"The children residing amongst rats and cockroaches, the children being bitten by rats, the residence's daily lack of heat, and the duct taping are well known to all three."

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6-year-old girl was forced to live in dog crate before her death, 3 suspects charged

Susan Robinson, 61, Tonya McKnight, 51, and Tery'n McKnight, 22, face child abuse charges after a 6-year-old girl was found dead at a home on Gwynne Hill Road.

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Robinson was a court appointed guardian

Exterminate this wench!

 

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Exterminate this wench!

& the other two bitches too!

 

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WBTV has obtained a juvenile court record that was filed by Mecklenburg County social workers after Dominique’s death. It reveals that the county’s agency responsible for protecting children at risk had been aware of abuse and neglect allegations at that home for years.

According to that court record, the Youth and Family Services division of the Mecklenburg County Department of Social Services had received five reports alleging children at the home were being abused or neglected over the six years prior to Dominique’s death.

The record does not say who submitted those reports. Police, however, had visited the property numerous times, and the record also indicates teachers had expressed concerns about the younger sister’s poor odor and hygiene at school. Dominique herself, at almost 7, had never been enrolled in school.

In each CPS report, the record says YFS investigated and did not find sufficient evidence to confirm the allegations. Each case was closed, the court record said. The children were left in the home.

The Mecklenburg County Department of Social Services declined a request for an interview. A spokesperson emailed simply that “removal of a child is dependent on a number of factors that are specific to a case.”

The investigations are undated in the court record. But Dominique’s body was covered in both old and new injuries at the time of her death, according to court records as well as the licensed mortician who is embalming her body,

“This little one struggled to survive,” said Atravis Powell Sr., mortician at Unity Funeral Services in Fayetteville. Based on healing and scar tissue factors, he believes some of the marks, scars and injuries on her body are four to five years old.

Child was horrifically abused before death, investigators say​

Dominique Moody was a month shy of her seventh birthday when a caller told police dispatchers on Dec.16, 2025, that she had stopped breathing.

Photos viewed by WBTV from months before and immediately after Dominique’s death show a deeply scarred and emaciated child clearly in need of immediate intervention — an intervention that never came.

Dominique’s younger sister, who just turned 6 years old, would later tell investigators that Dominique would “stay in a cage” with rats, and that the women in the home would tie her up with black tape “all the time,” whip her, and her body would become swollen.

The three women charged in her death denied her food, despite there being food in the home, investigators have also alleged. Court records say Dominique was forced to sit in soiled, feces-filled diapers for days that led to severe rashes and injuries in sensitive areas on her body.

Dominique and her younger sister had been placed with Tonya McKnight in December of 2019, with a judge officially transferring custody from their mother to Tonya two years later. McKnight was a relative of the children’s mother, who court records said struggled with addiction and other issues.

Now, social workers are moving to have Dominique’s younger sister placed back with her biological mother, Ikea McKnight, who spoke with WBTV on Monday, Jan. 12.

“My baby needs justice,” Ikea McKnight said. “Shouldn’t no child have to get put into the system and have to worry about who’s going to properly take care of them.”

When asked if she had called police over the years with concerns for the children, she said she had.

Records obtained by WBTV showed she was telling the truth.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police records detail nearly 50 calls for service placed at Dominique’s home address since the beginning of 2020.

Many of the calls are described as domestic disturbances. Some are for stray or nuisance animals.

In April of 2023, a family member called dispatchers begging for welfare checks on two young children at the home that the caller said were her great-grandchildren, and that she feared they were being mistreated.

A dispatcher wrote in their notes that the caller said a social worker had told her one of the girls appeared “ill or frail.”

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Police, social workers called to home dozens of times before child’s horrific death

No child’s story should begin in a funeral home. But today, that is where you’ll find 6-year-old Dominique Moody’s most outspoken advocates.

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