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5YO Girl Forced To Live In Feces Covered Closet With Little Food Prior To Her Death

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The grandparents of 5-year-old Kinsleigh Welty are devastated at the loss of their beloved grandchild and what she endured at the hands of her mother.

Toni McClure has been arrested and charge with murder and neglect resulting in death.

The mother's boyfriend, Ryan Smith is charged with neglect resulting in death.

First responders found the five year-old girl unresponsive in the home she shared with her mother and Smith.

Kinsleigh later died at the hospital .

According to court records, McClure initially tried to blame the girl’s father for the abuse inside the home. When that story fell apart, McClure allegedly confessed she knew she was treating her daughter wrong, but simply didn’t care.

Inside the home, police found a small closet covered in fecal matter where the girl was allegedly forced to spend most of her time.

The girl had fecal matter in her hair and on her feet. She also had lice crawling on her face and head. She weighed less at five years old than when she was two.
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Police said the bedroom closet was blocked by a dresser. McClure admitted she routinely put the victim in the closet and did the bare minimum to feed her daughter, who often complained she was hungry.


McClure confessed she feared her actions would eventually lead to her daughter’s death. She said she had a desire for her daughter to be out of her life. McClure was arrested for murder after making those statements.
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Brian Welty, Kinsleigh's grandfather said it's horrific. “It’s going to obviously be a memory I’ll have my entire life, that my granddaughter basically starved to death and it could have been avoided.”

Welty said he cared for Kinsleigh on two different occasions before she was returned to her mother’s custody. He was devastated to hear about the poor conditions his granddaughter was forced to endure.
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Mother confesses she forced 5-year-old daughter to live in feces covered closet with little food prior to her death

She weighed less at five years old than when she was two.
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Toni McClure had a previous conviction for child neglect.
Previous court documents show that in December of 2018, police in Mooresville visited a home occupied by McClure and several children after it was reported that the mother was having a medical issue.
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MPD said officers did not find McClure, who had already been taken to a hospital, at the house. However, one officer did find “one of the worst living conditions [they’d] ever seen” and a “repulsive sight.”

Inside the residence were two juveniles, a 1-year-old and a 3-week-old, whose diapers were completely full. The kids reportedly were running and crawling around on a floor covered in dirt, trash and cigarette butts. Near the children were a “filthy couch, dirty mattress and full ashtray.”
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Police responding to McClure’s home said it appeared that the children had been “playing with old potatoes” and were within reach of moldy food and sharp scissors.

“It appeared the trash had never been taken out,” the responding officer wrote. “Nats were flying all over the kitchen and living room.”
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In the bathroom, MPD noted that it appeared feces had never been cleaned from the toilet. Rooms were described as “hazardous nightmares for an adult, let alone a toddler and newborn.”

At that point, officers contacted Child Services to respond to the scene. When McClure was informed that DCS was at her house, she reportedly began “freaking out.”
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When observing the 3-week-old girl, police noticed that she was shaking and appeared malnourished. Doctors later observed the newborn and said she was in a “failure to thrive” state and had somehow lost weight in her first 3 weeks of life. She reportedly had “filth on her head and little hands,” court docs show.
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After further investigation and involvement from DCS, McClure was arrested and charged with four counts of neglect of a dependent. Court documents show that at the same time, a man named Bradley Welty was also charged with two counts of neglect.

Online court records show that McClure pled guilty to one count of neglect in May of 2020 and subsequently had her other three charges dismissed. She was then sentenced to 900 days in jail.

However, 858 days of McClure’s sentence was suspended and she was ordered to serve 540 days of probation.
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She said "she had a desire to have her daughter out of her life". why not drop her off at a relatives? Oh I know, because shes a fucking Psychopath that enjoyed torturing her.

The kids should NEVER have returned back to that house. Someone dropped the ball HARD.

And where is her sibling?

I really hope there is a hell and this mom goes to it. Hopefully shanked in jail.
 
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A 53-year-old woman is facing neglect charges for her role in the death of her 5-year-old granddaughter on April 9, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department announced Sunday.
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After Kinsleigh Welty’s death, officers took her mother, 29-year-old Toni McClure, and her boyfriend, 27-year-old Ryan Smith, into custody on Wednesday.
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On Sunday, IMPD announced in a post on Facebook that Welty’s grandmother, 53-year-old Tammy Halsey, was taken into custody for her connection to Welty’s death.
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Online jail records say Halsey was being held at the Marion County jail without bond and was arrested on charges of neglect of a dependent.
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The mother accused of neglecting her 5-year-old daughter to death is now charged with murder.
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Court documents show that 29-year-old Toni McClure admitted to police that for several months she had been keeping her daughter Kinsleigh Welty locked in a closet in her mobile home. Doctors say the girl weighed more at 2½ years old than she did when she died.

McClure told police she knew her daughter needed help, but did nothing because she was afraid of losing her other children.
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“Starvation and dehydration,” said Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears as he described the conditions that led to Kinsleigh death.

McClure told police she had only been feeding her one small meal a day.
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Detectives say the closet Kinsleigh was being kept in smelled like urine and feces.

A sibling of Kinsleigh described the closet as a cage when interviewed by detectives.
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Kinsleigh was covered in feces and lice the day she died. Mears said, “We believe that this is one of those cases that warrants one of the most severe punishments under the law. That is a life-without-parole sentence.”

Mears characterized the abuse to Kinsleigh by her mother and others as “torture.” He said, “When you see everything that this child went through it didn’t have to happen.”
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Child Services had previously taken McClure’s children from her when she pleaded guilty to neglecting Kinsleigh back in late 2018 in Morgan County. She served 21 days in jail for the offense.

Mears was asked if his office knew how McClure regained custody of her children after the Morgan County offense. “We don’t. I think that’s one of the things we’re trying to gather up, all that information in terms of procedurally ‘How did we get here?’ and ‘What were the intervention points that failed?’”
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According to court documents, detectives observed Kinsleigh's body after she died. The detective said it appeared Kinsleigh had feces stuck to the bottom of her feet and in her hair, as well as lice crawling on her face and in her hair. The detective also said Kinsleigh had what appeared to be bites or other unknown sores on her body.

Doctors at Riley Hospital for Children said Kinsleigh weighed more at 2 1/2 years old than what she weighed at 5 years old.
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Investigators learned that for several months prior to Kinsleigh's death, for the majority of the time, Kinsleigh was confined to a closet.
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Court documents say McClure admitted the following to detectives after previously giving them conflicting information:
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  • McClure said Kinsleigh's grandmother and Smith told McClure that Kinsleigh needed help and that the girl would die if McClure did not fix how she treated Kinsleigh.
  • McClure claimed Kinsleigh hated her and had resentment toward her because Kinsleigh had previously been taken by DCS.
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  • McClure admitted that for at least the last few months, she had regularly put Kinsleigh in a back closet that detectives discovered was blocked by a dresser. Detectives said there were human feces on the carpet and walls of the closet, with what appeared to be small handprints. Detectives also found clothes that were heavily soiled, likely belonging to a female child.
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  • McClure said she knew the way she had treated Kinsleigh likely led to her death.
  • McClure said she knew everything she had done to Kinsleigh was wrong, admitting that she had given up on and failed Kinsleigh.
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Detectives then spoke with Smith, who allegedly said in the last three to four months, he saw Kinsleigh out of the closet only 10 times.

Smith allegedly told detectives he believes he should be punished but not to the same level or extent as McClure.
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On April 14, IMPD announced that it had arrested Kinsleigh's grandmother, Tammy Halsey, for neglect of a dependent on April 12.

Court documents say Halsey allegedly told co-workers that she would regularly watch Kinsleigh and would tie the girl to a bed while the grandmother slept because Kinsleigh would get into things at night.
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Halsey allegedly said she knew McClure had been keeping Kinsleigh in a closet, but the grandmother never reported this to DCS because she did not want McClure to lose custody of her other children.
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The toddler and her brother once lived with Sarah Gessel for five months in 2021 before she said the court put Kinsleigh back in her mother's care.

"Two weeks after that is when the termination of parental rights was set to begin, which would have, again, no guarantee, but would have put us on the course for permanency for these two kiddos," Gessel said.
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A little over three years later, that shy little girl who Gessel said brought so much love into her home was found dead.

"We weren't the only ones who loved her. There were other people. There were so many other people that loved her and her brother. It was just so preventable," Gessel said.
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In 2018, McClure and Kinsleigh's father were convicted of neglect after Mooresville police found 3-week-old Kinsleigh malnourished, and her mouth was dry, and her lips were pale. According to court documents, officers gave Kinsleigh a bottle of formula, and she ate like she had not eaten in some time.
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These people are all so fucking disgusting, and they should all be facing the same sentence. Maybe enabling shit stains would be a bit quicker to turn on the abuser/s if they knew they'd be sharing the same fate. They became equally responsible for that child's long tortuous death the second they knew about it and decided not to contact authorities or do a single fucking thing to stop it.

Smith allegedly told detectives he believes he should be punished but not to the same level or extent as McClure.
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What a pathetic fucking worm this asshole is.
 
DamagedGoods said:
These people are all so fucking disgusting, and they should all be facing the same sentence. Maybe enabling shit stains would be a bit quicker to turn on the abuser/s if they knew they'd be sharing the same fate. They became equally responsible for that child's long tortuous death the second they knew about it and decided not to contact authorities or do a single fucking thing to stop it.


What a pathetic fucking worm this asshole is.
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He is not the father and is actually being honest.

Not his child, Not his problem.

Most woman will never grasp the fact that a lot of men will never care or protect a child that is not theirs.
 
I had read on Facebook that cps visited the house the same day Kinsleigh died but didn't see anything wrong n left. It's mention in AFCpodcast video. I think they were supposed to do a welfare check on Kinsleigh.
 
Sugar Cookie said:
He is not the father and is actually being honest.

Not his child, Not his problem.

Most woman will never grasp the fact that a lot of men will never care or protect a child that is not theirs.
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Ngl, that's a pretty shit take. He literally condoned child torture, who fucking cares if she wasn't biologically his? It takes love and nurturing to make a father, not DNA. He is just as guilty for knowing and not doing a goddamn thing. Apologies if your comment was more so expressed as his own moral-less mindset and not so much your own. It's probably true that most men won't gaf about a child they didn't create, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's morally acceptable, or that's the way it should be, especially to the point where you fail to prevent a child's murder. The girl's own sperm donor neglected her too, he didn't even give a shit. It's disgusting.
 
Sugar Cookie said:
He is not the father and is actually being honest.

Not his child, Not his problem.

Most woman will never grasp the fact that a lot of men will never care or protect a child that is not theirs.
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The logic of these step-parents baffle me.

What about, like, basic human decency?

A stranger being abused on the street ain't my kid either, but of course I'm going to call authorities and get them help.

Everyone has the right to be physically safe.

It's three numbers, you fucking jackals.
 
HijabiGirl said:
I don't understand how our laws treat children. If someone starves a puppy like this child was initially starved at three weeks old, the animal is removed and the owner never gets it back. But a child? Sure, take her back years later and kill her.
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Ya I don't get it. They gave her back so the bitch could finish what she had started when Kinsleigh was an infant.
In abusive relationships women are encouraged to leave and never go back. There are safe places for abused women. A friend of mine went to one with her kids. When it comes to children the system just doesn't work like this.
And there's that thing if someone shows you who they really are, believe them. Some of these parents show what kind of parents they are and yet they keep returning kids to these monsters.
 
Samantha Allen of AZ is on death row for essentially the exact same thing. So is her husband-as the co-conspirator.

That idiot doesnt have a prayer when it comes to a lighter sentence. If you don't remedy the situation, alert the authorities, and let it happen, you're an accomplice. Granny too.

They both should receive the death penalty.
It's felony murder with aggravated circumstances, the conspiracy between the three.


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Drop them in the ocean n let the sharks take care of them. Or feed them to the lions. You know the most they'll really get is life in prison where they will be protected and they'll eventually adapt. Amora's murderer seems to be doing just fine in prison.. is he still on death row? Our prisons have become too soft and accommodating to these monsters
 
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