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"Officials with the Ormond Beach Police Department said Calib Scott, 23, is charged with first-degree murder involving aggravated child abuse, and child neglect.

Officials said officers were called to an address on North Yonge Street a little before 1:30 a.m.

The caller said an infant at the address was having difficulty breathing.

Medics took the child to a nearby hospital, where the child was pronounced dead."


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When a 5-month-old boy wouldn’t stop crying in the night, the child’s father dropped the infant to the floor, struck him across the face and slammed the baby onto a changing table, causing the child’s death, according to a charging affidavit.

The boy’s father, Calib J. Scott, 23, is charged with first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and child neglect causing great harm.

After investigators responded to the trailer home they discovered a horrific case of abuse, according to the charging affidavit. The child had bruises in several stages of healing as well as open sores and cuts around the nose, mouth and face, according to the charging affidavit. The baby also had what appeared to be a fresh circular burn to the inside of his right ear, the affidavit said. Investigators suspect the burn was made by a cigarette.

Scott called 9-1-1 after he noticed the child was having difficulty breathing. Paramedics and police responded. The child was taken to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach and pronounced dead.

“My son, he’s, ah, he’s gone rag doll, basically, and he’s barely breathing,” Scott said. “And his eyes they won’t dilate.”

He said he went to change his son when he noticed he was in distress.

“I was changing him and when I picked him up he just rag dolled,” Scott said. “I don’t know how to explain it.”

He said in the 9-1-1 that the boy’s name was Daemon and that he was born on Jan. 15.

And Scott said that on Monday a dog had knocked over a box fan in the apartment and it landed on the boy, who suffered bruises to his forehead and cheek.

Scott was the primary caregiver for the child and the sole caretaker, according to the charging affidavit. In the 9-1-1, he said his wife had gone to work.

Scott told investigators that he became enraged by his son’s continuous crying and “pleaded” with the infant to stop, the affidavit states. When the child didn’t, Scott, who is 5 feet 11 inches tall, picked up the infant and dropped the child, who fell from a height of more than 3 feet and landed head first, the affidavit said.

Scott then picked his son up by the neck with the full weight of its body “freely hanging,” the report said. Scott dropped the infant on the bed and propped the child up on a pillow.

The child began to cry again then after again pleading for an end to the crying Scott then used “extreme force to slap / strike” his son across the face, the report states. He left the child on the bed and went to smoke a cigarette in the bathroom.

Scott then returned to the bedroom, picked his son up and slammed him onto a changing table, the affidavit states. The back of the child’s head struck the changing table and the child went limp.

Scott realized the boy was having difficulty breathing. He tried to resuscitate the child but failed and called 9-1-1, the report states.

An autopsy found that the child suffered a “subdural hematoma,” according to the charging affidavit. A subdural hematoma is bleeding on the brain often caused by a severe head injury. The boy was also suffering from dehydration.

Scott told investigators that the injuries to his son’s face happened about two weeks earlier and that while they were sufficient to need medical attention neither he nor the child’s mother sought medical treatment for the infant.
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Tuesday June 11th Calib Scott murdered his 5 month old infant son, in the trailer where he and Stephanie lived. The trailer was deemed unlivable by police due to extreme levels of filth. Trash and dog waste filled the home of this tiny helpless boy who had been reportedly ill with a cold for at least 2 months. More then a dozen DCF reports were made by family members and concurred members of the community. Stephanie consistently reported domestic abuse from Calib against herself but never reported about the baby. Stephanie did claim to tell a Dalton Bray about the child’s injuries. James from DCF was spoken to directly on multiple occasions but a home visit NEVER occurred. The police had been called to the residence five times in the past five months. Calib Scott sat free in his home for 6 hours after his sons passing before arrest.

When Stephanie was called by police to the hospital because her son was in respiratory destress, she asked a family member to bring her. Once they arrived, they were sat in the conciliation room where Stephanie was informed of the loss of her son. She did not cry one tear! She threw herself to the ground and refused to follow the nurse who had been instructed to have the babies body identified my the mother. She didn’t even want to tell her sweet boy goodbye for fear of the gruesome details that would be revealed. A family member went back with the nurse to identify the baby. What was described was worse then anything I have ever heard, in my life. The infant was severely beaten that night and had bruising across his entire body. Extremely bad on his limbs and face. The back of his head dented and bleeding. Cigarette burns on both of his ears and sides of his neck. His lip had been particularly severed and reattached weeks prior and his nose was missing. The burns, nose, and lips were done weeks prior. This baby had been systematically tortured his entire life!

When questioned by family and police as to why she didn’t help her son, Stephanie claimed to not know of his injuries. She was asked how could you not know your sons nose is gone! She replied that she was always working and when she say him he was always sleeping in the dark with a blanket on him. Later changing the story to say that a Vick’s vapor rub humidifier “burnt” his nose off after they held him to close to it. Calib Scott eventually admitted to shaving the child’s nose off with a razor blade. Scott admitted to many of the infants injuries but not all of them leading investigators to think Stephanie may have caused others. The police released Stephanie Holley pending investigation. She was staying the night with a friend and instructed by police “not to leave”.

Stephanie fled in the middle of the night via Bus to Toledo Ohio. She’s suspected of hiding out in Michigan with a man named Glen Payne who she also had a relationship with, and had told Calib Scott she was leaving him and moving in with this man the night of the insistent. She had been traveling back and forth leaving Calib Scott alone with the baby for weeks at a time. Stephanie is currently pregnant with her 6th child who is in extreme danger she must be found!

Stephanie Holley and Calib Scott have had three biological children. The first son passed away in 2015. The babies death was declared SIDS. Calib Scott was initially charged with the smothering of the child but was found NOT GUILTY by the court. Family and friends report that after the trial he openly admitted to smithing his son with a pillow. Stephanie stood by his side and defended him, both before and after this heartless confession. Their next child was born in 2017, this child, like his younger brother has scars from cigarette burns on both ears and his neck. When their second child was still an infant Calib Scott threw him across the room in a fit of rage. Thankfully there was a family member their who caught the baby. Calib Scott’s mother thankfully took custody of the child, who is now happy and healthy. Friends say that they were on the run from DCF and came to Florida to have their latest child without the state removing him.
 
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. Stephanie is currently pregnant with her 6th child who is in extreme danger she must be found!
. Stephanie Holley and Calib Scott have had three biological children. The first son passed away in 2015. The babies death was declared SIDS.
. Their next child was born in 2017, this child, like his younger brother has scars from cigarette burns on both ears and his neck. When their second child was still an infant Calib Scott threw him across the room in a fit of rage. Thankfully there was a family member their who caught the baby. Calib Scott’s mother thankfully took custody of the child,
That is 3 babies and she's pregnant so that is 4. Where are the other 2
 
.had bruising across his entire body. Extremely bad on his limbs and face. The back of his head dented and bleeding. Cigarette burns on both of his ears and sides of his neck. His lip had been particularly severed and reattached weeks prior and his nose was missing. The burns, nose, and lips were done weeks prior. This baby had been systematically tortured his entire life!
Arrest everyone that knew that baby existed. Because with their track record, everyone should have been right there taking that baby away.
 
Arrest everyone that knew that baby existed. Because with their track record, everyone should have been right there taking that baby away.

Your mad ignorant. Arrest the cops for not actually doing a home check after the neighbors called them cops for months. I know the person that their camera footage the news is using. My friend called the cops over 5xs, that’s not even counting the rest of the neighbors.
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The mother of this long tortured infant should be facing charges of her very own!!
That’s the truth!
 
Your mad ignorant. Arrest the cops for not actually doing a home check after the neighbors called them cops for months. I know the person that their camera footage the news is using. My friend called the cops over 5xs, that’s not even counting the rest of the neighbors.
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That’s the truth!
I'm sticking with my original comment.
Arrest everyone that one that knew the abuse was happening.
If it were my grandson, or my nephew, I would have taken the baby. Yep, I would have taken that baby and then the cops would have my full attention.

You don't just sit back and make phone calls.

. More then a dozen DCF reports were made by family members and concurred members of the community. Stephanie consistently reported domestic abuse from Calib against herself but never reported about the baby.
I think the people that used nothing more than a telephone to help that baby are the ignorant ones.
 
A Michigan State Police fugitive team arrested a woman living in Monroe on charges connected to the brutal death of her infant son in Florida.

Florida authorities identified the suspect as Stephanie Holly, 34, who was charged with neglect of a child causing great bodily harm, failure to report child abuse, neglect, or aggravated child abuse and culpable negligence expose injury.

Holly is being held in Monroe on a $210,000 bond and is pending extradition to Florida where her ex-husband is awaiting murder charges in connection with the death of the couple’s 5-month-old son, Daemon Scott, who was the victim of a homicide one year ago.

The infant died on June 12, 2019. According to the Michigan State Police, the child died of severe injuries suffered when the father, Calib Scott, purposely dropped the baby on his head from a standing position. Police investigators interviewed the father who admitted to losing his temper when the child would not stop crying.

After dropping the child, Scott left the room and went outside to smoke a cigarette, but the child began to cry again. Police said the father returned to the room and struck the child across the face before picking the child up over his head and slamming the infant onto a changing table causing the fatal injuries.

An autopsy revealed that the baby had multiple injuries in different stages of healing, including cigarette burns to the child’s ears. Authorities charged the father with first-degree murder and determined that Holly, the mother, who shared the home, had knowledge of the abuses suffered by the infant throughout his five-month life.


At the time of the death and arrest of her ex-husband, Holly fled Florida and came to Monroe. Ormond Beach Police Sgt. Tom Larsen said Holly was friends with a married couple who lived here. They took her in for a time but were unaware of the circumstances of the baby’s death.

“They took her in to be nice,” Larsen said.

Larsen said Holly then found a job and lived in Monroe for the past year, avoiding prosecution in Florida.

A hearing will be held to determine if Holly will fight or waive extradition to Florida. Police also said the victim, Daemon, who was abused all five months of his life, was the second child born to Holly to die under suspicious circumstances.

During the murder investigation of Daemon, first responders in Florida stated that the residence was in unlivable conditions due to filth, urine and dog feces throughout the home. Five dogs were later removed from the home. Detectives from the Ormond Beach Police stated that this is the most heinous crime they have ever investigated.
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He cut the baby's lips and nose off but then called 911 cus he's not breathing? Where the fuck is the logic there? How was he going to explain those injuries? Was he hoping for them to revive the baby so he could continue this torture? Theyd just sweep the missing nose under the rug? WHAT
 
Jan 7 - Per the State Attorney's spokesperson, Friday's hearing was not completed. The State Attorney's Office has agreed to not submit the indictment in any form to the jury, as it could be prejudicial to the case. Judge Dawn Nichols said no to the defense request "for the court reporter to note the race of all jurors examined during the jury selection." Also, the defense had asked that Scott's confession to OBPD and DCF not be used in court. The judge will hear arguments about that issue on Monday, Jan 10.

DeLand, FL - A father who confessed to the murder of his own child is scheduled for a Criminal Hearing in DeLand Friday afternoon. According to a report from the Department of Children & Families, Calib Scott made a confession to law enforcement and to the Child Protective Investigator that he killed his four-month-old son Daemon. He detailed being frustrated by Daemon’s crying and dropped him on the floor, picked him up by his neck, hit him across the face, and subsequently threw him onto the changing table where his head hit a metal bar.

Scott has been in the Volusia County Jail since June 2019, being held without bond, charged with child neglect, aggravated child abuse, and first-degree murder by aggravated child abuse.

State Attorney R.J. Larizza, who is seeking the death penalty in this case, released the following statement at the time of the offense, “Baby Daemon couldn’t walk, he couldn’t talk, he couldn’t roll from his back to his front,” Larizza said. “He couldn’t protect himself. He couldn’t fight back.”

Motions were made "for court reporter to note the race of all jurors examined during the jury selection" and another asking "to preclude submission of the indictment in any form to the jury." A spokesperson for the State Attorney's Office said the motions are typical in a murder case. He also said this case could go to trial in March.
The mother of five-month-old Daemon Scott, who died one year ago today as a result of child abuse and neglect, is sitting in a Michigan jail today, awaiting extradition to Florida. Stephanie Holly is not a good Mom, according to Krista Jones, who has known her for years.

In an interview with News Daytona Beach, Jones said that she is the stepmother of one of Holly's children who is currently in third-party custody in Mississippi. Jones is married to the father of Holly's child and they lived in the same mobile home park where Baby Daemon was abused.

Jones says she has known of Holly for 13 years because of her relationship with Jones' husband. She got to know Holly better during the past three years as she and her husband fought for custody of the child in Mississippi. When talking about Holly, Jones said she's not violent but 'does have a mouth on her.' Holly has given away all of her children, according to Jones, either to grandparents or fathers and in the case of the child that's in Mississippi, to a third-party.

Jones was with Holly when they got the news that Baby Daemon was dead. Jones says Holly sat like 'a zombie' and showed no emotion when they heard the news. When the doctor asked if there was anything he could do for her, Jones said Holly said, "Oh, my baby," and flings herself on the floor, rolls around and beat on the floor, throwing a temper tantrum. When asked to identify the baby, Jones said Holly refused so she did it herself. Jones said she had nightmares for weeks afterward about the condition of Baby Daemon's body. She described the sight as 'horrendous' and talked about the injuries. "He had bruises all around the top portion of his head, down his left arm, all down his right leg. Burns behind and then inside of his ears and tubes and wires everywhere. It was the absolute worst thing I've ever seen in my entire
life."

After the baby's body was identified, Jones said OBPD officers asked her to drive Holly to the police station. "The whole time, I'm screaming at her in the car. How could that happen to his face, how could it happen? How did you not see this? What is wrong with you? How could you not say something? You see something, you say something! What is wrong with you?" Jones said Holly said she was working all the time and that C.J. (Calib Scott) would not let her see the baby.

Jones said early on the morning of June 12, Holley got on a bus to Toldeo, Ohio. Jones said when she realized Holley was gone, she contacted OBPD. She got an address for her, passing the information along to the police department. Holly was arrested at that address just one day short of the one year anniversary of the death of Daemon Scott.
 
The death-penalty trial of an Ormond Beach man accused of beating his infant son to death began with a prosecutor recalling how the man described smacking the child like he was going to knock his teeth down his throat.

A defense attorney then followed with his opening statement saying how the man told police that he had never meant to hurt the child.

Calib Scott, 26, was indicted on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of his son, Daemon, who was not quite 5 months old when prosecutors said he was fatally beaten by his father.

The case dates back to June 11, 2019 when Scott called 9-1-1 to say that his son was not breathing.

If convicted of first-degree murder, prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Scott.
Assistant State Attorney Andrew Urbanak, who along with Heatha Trigones is prosecuting Scott, told jurors that Scott first lied to police and told them he never hurt the baby. Scott blamed the injuries to the child’s face on the child being too close to a vaporizer, although a doctor will testify they were caused by blunt trauma.

Scott eventually changed his story as police questioned him more about the injuries, Urbanak said.

Urbanak pointed out to the jury that Scott acknowledged that he was the child’s caregiver and that he didn't work. He was alone with the child as the mother went to work.

Scott admitted that he dropped the child on his head.

“He tells the police that after he dropped Daemon he made a mistake; he picked him up by his throat and put him on the bed,” Urbanak told the jury.

Urbanak then recalled how Scott described eventually striking the child.

“But he kept crying, he said, just kept crying and so he smacked him,” Urbanak told jurors. “And (he) describes the smack as one like your mama always threatened you with, ‘I’m going to knock your teeth down into your throat.’ He smacks him. And then he goes to change him. He’s still crying.”

'I think I killed him'​

Urbanak said Scott then slammed the child down and then goes to change him and the child goes limp.

Urbanak said Scott then told police he was responsible.

“He tells them ‘I think I killed him.' He says 'I killed my baby, I killed him. It’s my fault. I just couldn’t take it no more. I couldn’t take just being alone, being stuck in that (expletive) house every single day. Doing the same thing over and over. Nobody to talk to, nobody to be there. It’s just me. I just couldn’t take it. And he started screaming and screaming and screaming and I couldn’t take it no more.'”

Assistant Public Defender Brian Smith, who is representing Scott along with Assistant Public Defenders Larry Avallone and Rosemarie Peoples, also recalled Scott’s statements.

“'I killed my baby. I killed him. It’s all my fault. I don’t deserve to be here. Oh God. Oh no. Oh God. I thought I saved him. I thought, got to breathing again and I had thought he was going to be OK. And then he’s dead. Oh God. Oh God. I miss my baby boy. I didn’t mean to hurt him. I didn’t mean to hurt him,'” Smith told jurors.

The investigation in Ormond Beach began after Scott called 9-1-1 early on the morning of June 11, 2019 to his mobile home at 19 N. Yonge St. after he said he noticed his son, Daemon, was having difficulty breathing, a report said.

The child was taken to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach and was later pronounced dead.

An autopsy found that Daemon had suffered a “subdural hematoma,” according to the charging affidavit. A subdural hematoma is bleeding on the brain often caused by a severe head injury.

The child's mother, Stephanie Holly, 36, who was at work when police were called, was charged with neglect of a child causing great bodily harm, failure to report child abuse/neglect and culpable negligence. She has a hearing set for May 3 before Nichols.

During testimony Monday, Ormond Beach Police described the child's home in the single-wide trailer as filthy, unkempt with unwashed dishes, food on the stove and in the oven and what appeared to be dog feces in the trailer.

Former Ormond Beach Police Officer Kevin Culvert, who is now a police officer in Georgia, testified that he was the first officer on the scene that early morning.

He said he heard Scott call Holly on a cell phone set to speaker mode as paramedics worked on the child and then transported him to a hospital.

Culvert said he heard Holly tell him that he had better not have hurt the baby.

Culvert said Scott denied doing anything to the child.

Culvert testified about Scott: "He kept saying that he didn't do anything. He didn't hurt the baby and the baby just stopped breathing, he was changing the diaper."
 
Calib Scott, 26, was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder and other charges for beating his infant son to death and next week the jury will decide whether to recommend he be sentenced to death.

A jury deliberated for more than five hours before returning guilty verdicts against Scott on the charges of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and child neglect causing great harm.

The penalty phase of the trial will begin on Monday when the jurors will recommend that Scott be sentenced to death or that he spend the rest of his life in prison.

The jury recommendation for death must be unanimous for Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols to have the option of sentencing Scott to death. If the jurors do not unanimously agree on a death recommendation, then Nichols must sentence Scott to a mandatory life in prison without parole on the murder count.

Scott did not testify during the trial.

State Attorney R.J. Larizza issued a statement after the verdict.

"Baby Damon suffered through five months of hell and ultimately died at the hands of his father. What he suffered is unimaginable. How could a father be so selfish and cruel?" Larizza stated in the release. "We will remain dedicated to protecting the most vulnerable and precious members of our community as we prepare for the sentencing phase of the trial."

The investigation in Ormond Beach began after Scott called 9-1-1 early on the morning of June 11, 2019 after he said he noticed his son, Daemon, was having difficulty breathing, a report said.

The child was taken to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach and was later pronounced dead.

An autopsy found that Daemon had suffered a “subdural hematoma,” according to the charging affidavit. A subdural hematoma is bleeding on the brain often caused by a severe head injury.

The child's mother, Stephanie Holly, 36, who was at work when police were called, was charged with neglect of a child causing great bodily harm, failure to report child abuse/neglect and culpable negligence. She has a hearing set for May 3 before Nichols.

Assistant State Attorneys, Heatha Trigones and Andrew Urbanak, in their closing statements told jurors that they should convict Scott as charged.

Scott sat mostly looking straight ahead as the prosecutors made their arguments and described the numerous injuries to the infant or how Scott told police he smacked the child.

“You saw the interview of Calib Scott and you saw his admission that he smacked the (expletive) out of his child that he slammed him down that he picked him up by the throat,” Urbanak told jurors.

Scott told police he did that to distract the child from crying, Urbanak said.

“You've got a grown man slapping the (expletive) out of a child that weighs 12 pounds,” Urbanak said.

He said that Scott admitted picking the child up by his neck and slamming him down but those actions do not account for all the injuries, Urbanak said.

“There were a lot more injures to that child in the 24 hours before his death than Mr. Scott talked about,” Urbanak said.
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Saying that instead of protecting his infant son he tormented and killed him, a judge sentenced Calib Justice Scott to the mandatory term of life in prison without parole.

It was the only sentence Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols could impose for Scott's first-degree murder conviction after a jury rejected the death penalty. For the judge to have that option, all 12 jurors would have had to unanimously recommend death.
Scott, 26, appeared to show no emotion as a clerk read the jury's decision sparing him the death sentence. Scott also appeared to show no emotion as Nichols sentenced him to life in prison without parole.
But Nichols had some words for Scott before pronouncing sentence.

"The abuse of this child was ongoing," Nichols said before sentencing Scott. "The second medical examiner specifically referenced old brain injuries to this child that were several weeks old. This abuse was not occurring just the day of his death. This child was subjected to torment, abuse for the entirety of his short life.
"The medical examiner specifically stated that there were old injuries to the child's frontal lobe that were several weeks old," Nichols said. "This child was a victim of abuse from you, Mr. Scott, the person who was charged with protecting him. You were supposed to be his protector. You were his tormentor and ultimately his killer. The jury has shown you mercy. Mercy you never showed Daemon."
In addition to the murder conviction, Scott was convicted of aggravated child abuse and child neglect causing great harm. Nichols sentenced him to 30 years on the aggravated child abuse charge and 15 years on the neglect charge, both to run concurrent with the life sentence.
The investigation began after Scott called 911 early on the morning of June 11, 2019, to his mobile home at 19 N. Yonge St. in Ormond Beach because he said Daemon was having difficulty breathing, a report said. The child, who was not quite 5 months old and weighed about 12 pounds, was taken to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach where he was later pronounced dead.
Ormond Beach Police found that the child had been living in deplorable conditions in a filthy, cluttered mobile home with dog feces.

Assistant State Attorneys Andrew Urbanak and Heatha Trigones said that Scott should be sentenced to death for killing his infant son who suffered before his death in his short life.
Urbanak in his closing arguments told jurors that they should not allow Scott to spend the rest of his in prison where he could still enjoy privileges such as watching movies on a tablet.
Within 24 hours of being convicted of killing his child, Scott was laughing with other inmates at the jail, Urbanak said, reminding jurors of a recording of a jailhouse phone call played for the jury.

He said Scott had lied to police for more than an hour to try to avoid arrest and had been deceitful with a defense expert who interviewed him.
Assistant Public Defender Rosemarie Peoples, who along with Avallone and Brian Smith represented Scott, argued that Scott had suffered a traumatic brain injury as a child, and grew up in poverty with a brother who would choke him until he was unconscious while wrestling at home. She said Scott attended school smelling so badly that it caught teachers' attention.
Peoples said that while Scott initially lied to police about what happened, he had accepted responsibility and was remorseful. Peoples said Scott never intended to kill Daemon.
Peoples displayed for jurors a slide of two plants on a screen in the courtroom. She said one of the plants was withered because it was growing in thorns while the other was prospering because it was in a field without thorns. She said Scott had grown up in a field of thorns.
Earlier in the trial, another defense witness testified that Scott had used drugs, including inhaling gasoline vapors and computer cleaner and using methamphetamine and marijuana.

Even though he was smaller than other boys, Scott played football while in school, which could have injured his brain, the defense argued.
Peoples pushed back about Urbanak's description of prison, saying it was not "Club Med," that it was prison and Scott would never leave until he dies.

She said Scott could tell other prisoners about his faith, about the dangers of meth.
"Calib is not beyond redemption because despite all the disfunction his family loves him," Peoples said.

She said Scott did not mean to kill Daemon.

Peoples said: "He never woke up that moment with an intent to kill that little baby."
 
Stephanie Holly has been sentenced to 12 years in prison and eight years probation for her role in a 5-month-old son's death.
“This baby was abused and neglected for his entire short life,” judge Dawn Nichols said.

Baby Daemon was in the family's Ormond Beach mobile home with the father, Calib Scott, in June 2019. When he wouldn't stop crying, Scott beat the baby, dropped him to the floor and slammed him onto a changing table. The medical examiner also found older injuries that went untreated.
Scott was sentenced to life in prison. Holly's defense attorney introduced a clinical psychologist who testified Holly was terribly abused as a child, and then as an adult by Scott – so much so she suppressed all emotion.
Holly, who did not make any statement, could have gotten up to 20 years for child neglect causing great bodily harm, failing to report abuse and culpable negligence. The judge didn't sentence her to the maximum, agreeing that Holly had a difficult past but said the troubled mother was still ultimately responsible for her child.

“This cannot and will not excuse the actions she took, and she didn't take with respect to this 5-month-old baby,” Nichols said.
Following her 12-year prison sentence, the judge ordered that Holly go directly into a residential facility to be treated for mental health issues.

The judge also ordered that Holly have no unsupervised contact with any children under the age of 5
 
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