RIYLN PAIGE GILLEY -2 months- Roosevelt UT

Roosevelt woman charged with killing her 2-month-old daughter



DUCHESNE — A Roosevelt woman has been charged with causing the death of her 2-month-old daughter.
Samantha Lynn Gilley, 20, was charged Wednesday in 8th District Court with child abuse homicide, a first-degree felony.
Gilley is accused of inflicting fatal brain injuries on her daughter, Riyln Paige.
The infant was not breathing when Gilley brought her to Uintah Basin Medical Center shortly before noon on Feb. 28, according to Roosevelt police detective Allan Tucker. Doctors were able to revive the baby and stabilize her before sending her to Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City.
Doctors at both hospitals suspected that the baby's injuries were the result of abuse, Tucker said.
“The concern for inflicted head trauma in this patient is quite high,” the detective said, reading from a report provided to police by the staff at Primary.
The infant had hemorrhaging of the brain and retinas consistent with the infant being violently shaken, doctors told police.
Riyln Paige Gilley was removed from life support March 5 and died a short time later, Tucker said. Her mother and extended family have been cooperative with police, the detective said, agreeing to multiple interviews.
Based in part on that cooperation, Samantha Gilley has not been arrested. She is expected to be issued a summons to appear in court later this month.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705368448/Roosevelt-woman-charged-with-killing-her-2-month-old-daughter.html

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DUCHESNE — Samantha Lynn Gilley stood so
close to her defense attorney Thursday in 8th District
Court that it was difficult to see her, and she spoke only
when asked a direct question by Judge George Harmond.


In a soft voice, the slightly built 21-year-old
Roosevelt woman told Harmond that while she maintained her
innocence, she knew prosecutors had sufficient evidence to
convict her of shaking her infant daughter to death
earlier this year. Then she entered a no-contest plea to
child abuse homicide, a second-degree felony.


Riyln Paige Gilley was not breathing when her
mother brought her to Uintah Basin Medical Center
shortly before noon on Feb. 28, according to Roosevelt
police. Doctors were able to revive the 2-month-old girl
and stabilize her before sending her to Primary Children's
Medical Center in Salt Lake City.


The infant had hemorrhaging of the brain and retinas
consistent with being violently shaken, doctors told
police. She was removed from life support March 5 and died
a short time later.


Duchesne County Attorney Stephen Foote told the court
Thursday that an autopsy showed Riyln died as a result of
closed head trauma, consistent with being shaken.


Foote told the court that he was reducing the child
abuse homicide charge originally filed against Gilley from
a first-degree felony to a second-degree felony, in
exchange for her plea. He also agreed to recommend that
she serve 150 days in jail in lieu of prison time.
Harmond agreed to follow the recommendation for jail
time and placed Gilley on three years' probation. The
judge also ordered her to take a parenting class, saying
that he didn't believe she acted "intentionally or
maliciously" when she caused her daughter's death.


After the hearing, Foote called Rilyn's death "a tragic
mishap."


"I don't think there was any intent to cause a death,"
he said. "I think it was a negligence issue, and that's
why we pled it the way we did."


Foote noted that Gilley was 19 years old when she got
pregnant and became a parent at age 20. The baby's father
and his family did not offer any support after she was
born, the prosecutor said. That left Gilley to rely on her
own mother for help with an infant who was taking
medications for acid reflux and colic.


Research by the National Center on Shaken Baby
Syndrome, based in Ogden, shows that parental
frustration over infant crying is a key trigger in most
cases where a child is injured or kill by shaking.


The center has identified what it calls the Period
of PURPLE Crying to try to educate parents and other
caregivers. The period begins at about 2 weeks of age
and continues until about 3 or 4 months, according to the
center's website. All infants go through it.


Foote said he would like to see something postive come
from Gilley's case, something that might stop other
infants from being harmed.


"I think the only way to prevent incidents like this is
through education," he said. "What I'd really like to see
come out of this case is some education for young
mothers."
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I guess Utah is the state to live in if you want to abuse your children. 150 days in jail for shaking your baby to death??? That's pathetic and not justice for the life of an infant baby. So sad.