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Deceased Mercedes Lain, 11months, Missing for 5 Days in Plymouth, IN; "Extreme Danger Warning", Parents Arrested

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"11-month-old Mercedes Lain is still missing, according to authorities in Indiana — and now, the FBI has joined the search for the girl.
Police in Plymouth, Ind., have arrested Mercedes' parents as well as the last person who was seen with her, according to a police statement.

Officials confirm Kenneth Lain, 41, and Tiffany Coburn, 32, have both been charged with neglect of a dependent. They are in police custody.
Justin Miller, 37, is also charged with neglect of a dependent.
According to investigators, Miller is a family friend and had been asked to care for Mercedes for a few days, officials said at a press conference.

The little girl was reported missing Sunday.
Police say Mercedes is believed to be "in extreme danger" and may require medical assistance.
A reward of up to $1,000 is being offered for information leading to her whereabouts.
Mercedes is a white female, who is 2 feet tall and weighs 19 lbs. She has blonde hair with brown eyes.
Police say she was last seen at 12:30 a.m. on Saturday in Mishawaka, Ind. At the time, she was dressed in a white onesie with pink trim."

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RavagesTheCabbages said:
So where is Mercedes, trio of losers?
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They found her.

PLYMOUTH, Ind. (WXIN) — An 11-month-old Indiana girl who was reported missing over the weekend was found dead Wednesday, officials said.

Mercedes Lain had been placed in the care of family friend Justin Miller and was last seen around 12:30 a.m. on Saturday in Mishawaka, Indiana, according to the FBI. She was wearing a white onesie with pink trim.

The girl’s father, Kenny Lain, reported her missing on Sunday. Police located Miller on Monday morning in Starke County, but Mercedes was not with him.

On Wednesday afternoon, after several interviews, Miller led officers to a wooded area in Starke County where they found the girl’s body. Investigators believe she died Saturday, according to Marshall County Prosecutor E. Nelson Chipman.

Miller will be charged with neglect of a dependent resulting in death, authorities said. Kenny Lain and Tiffany Coburn, the girl’s parents, face neglect of a dependent charges.

An autopsy has been scheduled to determine the cause of death. Additional charges could be filed based on the autopsy results.
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Tiffany Coburn and Kenneth Lain were both taken into custody on charges of Level 6 neglect of a dependent because they gave the baby to Miller, Chipman said.
Miller was was found on Monday at a home in Starke County and taken into custody. After numerous interviews with police, on Wednesday, Miller led investigators to Mercedes’ body, Chipman said.
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Court documents say Last Friday, Mercedes' parents dropped her off with family friend Justin Miller so they could have a break for the weekend. He was supposed to bring her back on Sunday, but when they got a hold of him, he said he dropped the baby girl off with a neighbor who he had seen before, but didn’t know.
When Miller was interviewed by police, his recollection of the events changed several times.
He initially told police that he stayed at a friend's house in Koontz Lake, but then changed his story, saying he was with his girlfriend, who lives in Mishawaka. When he went to drop the baby off at the motel, the parents weren’t there, so he left her with a woman who was staying in their room because he had an appointment.
He claims he communicated with the parents and admitted to police that he was using synthetic marijuana.
Police tried to get in contact with the parents several times and finally were able to on Monday morning. Police say the parents have been uncooperative in looking for their child. Both were arrested and questioned by police.
Mercedes' mother Tiffany Coburn admitted to police that she had use meth several times.
Both parents admit to being in contact with Justin Miller, but say they don’t know where their daughter is.
Police were able to get in contact with the friend that Justin Miller told them he stayed within Koontz Lake. That friend said he showed up with the baby on Friday, left, and then when he came back on Sunday, he didn’t have the baby.
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UPDATE: Court documents provide information on hours before 11-month-old went missing

Still nowhere to be found, but brand-new details tonight as the search for a missing 11 month-old girl continues. It’s now been four days since Mercedes Lain was last seen. State and local police along with the FBI continued their search today with no results. We just got a hold of some court...
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BBBLUE77 said:
Payment for a drug debt, perhaps?
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That or some other bizarre drug addict loser scenario. The parents look unstable, and live in a welfare motel. The creep they left her with looks even more unstable, and does not for one second look like prime babysitter material. I can't imagine he voluntarily said "hey, I'd love to babysit your infant", unless the sole purpose was to molest her.
 
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A man likely faces decades in prison after pleading guilty to killing an 11-month-old girl whose remains were found in August in a wooded area in Starke County.

Justin Miller appeared in court Monday and acknowledged that he was responsible for the death of Mercedes Lain of Plymouth.

Miller said he was watching Mercedes — a relative’s daughter — at his girlfriend’s apartment in Mishawaka when he struck the crying child "a couple of times" while he was high on synthetic marijuana.

After discovering that Mercedes was dead, Miller said he borrowed gas money from a neighbor, drove to Starke County and buried the body in the woods.


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A Starke County magistrate accepted the Justin Miller guilty plea in the death of baby Mercedes Lain. Miller was sentenced to 65 years in prison, the maximum he could get.

Erica Finke was the only reporter in the courtroom during the December hearing. That’s when Miller admitted to hitting the 11-month-old baby while high on synthetic marijuana last summer.

Miller said when he woke up the next day, Mercedes’ was dead. He drove as far as he could with the gas he had to the Starke-Marshall County line where he buried her body.

Miller said he had started babysitting Mercedes August 12. At the time, Miller had been living with his girlfriend at her Mishawaka apartment.

On August 14 after 1 a.m., Miller said he had gotten into an argument with his girlfriend at her apartment. He had been using synthetic marijuana and was very intoxicated.

Mercedes got upset following the argument and that's when Miller said he backhanded her and her head hit the wall.

He claims he forcefully gave her a bottle and she settled down.
Mercedes got fussy again after Miller's girlfriend came out again and they got into another argument.

That's when he said he put his hand over her mouth, smacked her and she fell back on the bed. He gave her the bottle again and she quieted down.

Even though he was under the influence, he said he remembers because he wanted her to be quiet.

When Miller woke up later that day, he noticed Mercedes wasn't moving and realized she was dead.

He said he freaked out, put her in her car seat, borrowed gas money from a neighbor and drove as far as he could to bury her body.

He put Mercedes in a blanket and buried her in Starke County. This was the location he later brought police to in order to recover her body.

After Miller told his story, the judge questioned whether blows to the head with an open had could kill a child.

Miller said he did it "a couple times." The prosecution said her death by blunt force injuries to the head is consistent with Mercedes' head hitting the wall.
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The parents of a Plymouth toddler, who was murdered by her babysitter, pleaded guilty to child neglect charges after admitting Thursday to exposing their daughter to drugs.

Kenneth Lain and Tiffany Coburn entered plea agreements in Marshall County just two days after Justin Miller was sentenced to 65 years in prison for killing 11-month-old Mercedes Lain in August.

Prosecutors say Lain and Coburn gave Mercedes to Miller so they "could have a break" from taking care of her for a while. The criminal charges also stem from the pair allegedly using drugs in the motel room where they lived with Mercedes, creating a harmful environment for the baby.
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With Lain and Coburn pleading guilty to child neglect charges, the pair could be sentenced to as much as two and a half years in prison by Marshall Superior Court Judge Matthew Sarber.

In exchange for Lain pleading guilty, prosecutors agreed to not file a habitual offender sentencing enhancement which could have added between two and six years to his sentence. The deal does not specify any terms beyond that, allowing Sarber to determine the sentence after he hears testimony from both parties at a hearing next month.
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Lain was previously convicted of child neglect for allowing a man to sexually abuse another of his daughters in 2016.

Coburn also intends to plead guilty and Sarber indicated the terms of her agreement are similar to Lain's.
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Parents of murdered Plymouth baby Mercedes Lain plead guilty to child neglect

Kenneth Lain and Tiffany Coburn's deals stipulate prosecutors will not file sentencing enhancements. Justin Miller was sentenced to 65 years.
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A judge Friday sentenced the father of Mercedes Lain, an 11-month-old Plymouth girl who died at the hands of a babysitter last year, to 2 ½ years in prison for child neglect.

Kenneth Lain, 42, pleaded guilty last month to the neglect charge, admitting he placed Mercedes in a harmful environment that included drugs and that he allowed a friend to babysit the girl despite the friend’s own history of drug use.

That friend, Justin Miller, 37, was sentenced to 65 years in prison last month after pleading guilty to murder in Mercedes’ beating death.
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Dad gets 2 1/2 years for neglect of slain 11-month-old Plymouth girl

Kenneth Lain admitted he placed Mercedes Lain in danger before she was killed by a babysitter who was later sentenced to 65 years for her death.
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A judge in Indiana handed down the maximum sentence to a mother charged in connection with the brutal death of her infant daughter. Marshall Superior Court Judge Matthew E. Sarber on Friday sentenced 32-year-old Tiffany Coburn to serve 30 months (two years and six months) in prison after a man she and her husband described as a “family relative” brutally murdered 11-month-old Mercedes Lain while babysitting in August 2021, court records reviewed by Law&Crime showed.
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Coburn’s sentence means that all three of the adults charged in Mercedes’ death were handed maximum sentences.

Coburn and Mercedes’ father, Kenneth Robert Lain, last month both pleaded guilty to one count each of neglect of a dependent, a Level 6 felony, for endangering the life of their daughter by placing her in the care of 37-year-old Justin Miller.

Miller last year admitted that he “backhanded” the little girl in the head multiple times while high on synthetic marijuana then buried her remains in a shallow grave. He pleaded guilty to one count of murder and was sentenced to the maximum 65 years behind bars. As part of his plea agreement, Miller waived his right to appeal his sentence.

Like Kenneth Lain, Coburn will receive credit for the time she has already spent behind bars since her initial arrest last August. Under Indiana state law, individuals incarcerated for certain misdemeanors and low-level felonies can earn an “good time” credit, granting them an additional day off of their sentence for each day completed with good behavior. As such, the pair’s six months in jail have earned them approximately one year of credited time served. Thus, it is possible for them to both complete the entirety of their sentences after serving approximately nine more months in prison.
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Coburn’s mother, Angie Owens, previously derided her daughter and Lain, reportedly telling The Daily Beast they are “definitely not good parents.”

“We tried everything in our power to get this baby taken away from them,” Owens continued. “We have called [child protective services] many times. There’s nothing more that we could have done than what we did. We have gone beyond our power in doing what we could to help this baby.”

Lain was previously convicted of neglect of a dependent in 2016 and was sentenced to two years in prison with one year of the sentence suspended. He was then ordered to serve the suspended year after violating the terms of his probation, court records show. Records show he has has also been convicted of several other felonies, many of which include methamphetamine possession.
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lawandcrime.com

Indiana Mom Gets Maximum Sentence for Leaving Infant with a 'Family Relative' Who Beat the Baby to Death

A judge in Indiana handed down the maximum sentence to Tiffany Coburn for her role in the 2021 death of her 11-month-old daughter Mercedes Lain.
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