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An Opelika mother and a male acquaintance have been arrested in the Murder of her two-year-old child. The child who discovered dead on Friday, November 11th, leading to Opelika Police Detectives and the Lee County Coroner’s Office, beginning an investigation into the child’s death at home along Cherry Circle.

The child’s body was taken to the Alabama Department of Forensic Science for an autopsy. The investigation led to the arrest of the child’s mother, Chasity Umeko Baker, 28, from Opelika. A male acquaintance named Jamario Emanuel Mitchell, 28, from Opelika was also arrested for Murder. Both were arrested Monday, November 15. Investigators say Mitchell is not the child’s father and was believed to be in a dating relationship with the baby’s mother.
 
What is with these women meeting a guy and immediately allowing him to be around their kids and even leaves the kids in their care. They then wonder why bad things happen to their kids.

I dated my husband for 3 years before he met my girls. They'd been through enough when I adopted them. Even after he met them, he's never been left unattended with them at any time. I'd much rather be safe than sorry. My girls have been through enough with their egg donor and her string of men. They have known from day one, they are safe with me and they know about good touch and bad touch. They know they can tell me anything and I will back them 100% over some guy. They are my world.
 
An Alabama woman and her live-in boyfriend were arrested this week for allegedly beating the woman’s 2-year-old daughter to death, leaving the child with a slew of broken bones and bleeding from her brain. Chasity U. Baker and Jamario E. Mitchell, both 28, were taken into custody Monday and charged with one count each of murder.
The child was declared dead on the scene, and her body was taken to the Alabama Department of Forensic Science for a postmortem examination and autopsy. Lee County Coroner Bill Harris oversaw the autopsy; it determined that the little girl’s death was a homicide caused “multiple blunt force trauma,” per a Tuesday press release.
The report states the child suffered a broken left and right collarbone, a broken left rib, fractured skull, and brain bleed,” WKRG said. “Forensic medical examiners indicated the severity of the injuries meant they were recent and not accidental.”

Opelika Police Chief Shane Healey told WKRG that investigators were able to determine that Baker and Mitchell were the only two people who were with Baker’s daughter in the time immediately preceding her death. The couple allegedly told investigators they were the only two people who had access to the toddler, but both reportedly insisted they did not have any idea how she sustained such severe injuries.


“It’s a horrific incident, a two-year-old is defenseless, and it’s just unfathomable that this could happen to a two-year-old,” Chief Healey told the television station.
 
An Opelika man accused of murdering his girlfriend’s toddler was in court Tuesday for his preliminary hearing. The child’s mother, charged with Child Abuse, was also in court for her hearing. A Lee County Judge decided there was enough evidence to send the Murder case against 28-year-old Jamario Mitchell to a Grand Jury. According to the Lee County District Attorney’s Office, the case against 28-year-old Chasity Baker was also bound over to a Grand Jury for Aggravated Child abuse.
A deposition in the case filed on Nov. 16, 2021, indicates the toddler suffered blunt force trauma. The report states the child suffered a broken left and right collarbone, a broken left rib, fractured skull, and brain bleed. Forensic medical examiners indicated the severity of the injuries meant they were recent and not accidental.
The investigation began Friday, Nov. 12, 2021, at 7:00 a.m., with a 911 call from home along Cherry Circle in Opelika. Paramedics found the two-year-old little girl deceased in a back bedroom. The child was sent for an autopsy with the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences in Montgomery. Opelika Police Chief Shane Healey tells News 3 the preliminary autopsy indicated the manner of death was a homicide, and the initial cause of death was blunt force trauma.
The child’s mother, Chasity Baker, 28, and her live-in boyfriend, Jamario Mitchell, 28, were arrested Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. According to court documents, Baker and Mitchell told police the two-year-old was sick, and they checked on her throughout the night. The couple stated while they were the only two who had access to the child, they did not know how she was injured.

“It’s a horrific incident, a two-year-old is defenseless, and it’s just unfathomable that this could happen to a two-year-old,” said Chief Healey.

You know they closed the door and never checked on that baby again until the following morning.
 
An Opelika man has been found guilty by a Lee County jury Friday in the murder of 2-year-old Ivy Baker.
Ivy Baker was pronounced dead on November 12, 2021 in Opelika, and was taken to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences for an autopsy.


Following the autopsy and investigation, Ivy’s mother, 28-year-old Chasity Umeko Baker, and the mother’s boyfriend, 28-year-old Jamario Emanuel Mitchell, were charged on November 15, 2021 for murder.
This week, Mitchell’s trial began in a Lee County courtroom. Mitchell was found guilty by the jury on Friday, March 28, 2025. He was found guilty of Felony Murder-Child Abuse, also known Ava’s Law.
Chasity Baker, Ivy’s mother, will be tried during a future trial term. Mitchell’s sentencing hearing will be held on a later date.
 
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INMATE: MITCHELL, JAMARIO EMANUEL

ADMIT DATE: 04/30/2025

TOTAL TERM: 564 MONTHS (47 YEARS)

MINIMUM RELEASE DATE: 03/28/2070

PAROLE CONSIDERATION DATE: 04/01/2038

OFFENSE: MURDER


INMATE: BAKER, CHASITY UMEKO


ADMIT DATE: 02/17/2026

TOTAL TERM: 25 YEARS

MINIMUM RELEASE DATE: 02/12/2050

OFFENSE: MURDER
 
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