KIANNA MEUS - 1 yo - Miami Gardens/North Miami FL

Police on Monday were investigating the death of a 1-year-old baby
girl. The child was involved in some type of accident in North
Miami Sunday, said Lt. Neal Cuevas, a North Miami police spokesman.
Someone later took her to Miami Gardens where she was found not
breathing in the 2700 block of Northwest 200th Terrace. Miami
Gardens police were called to the home where the child's body was found.
Paramedics responded but the child couldn't be resuscitated.
Police did not say who took the child to Miami Gardens, who was at
home at the time or what exactly happened to the child. An
autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday, Cuevas said. Until then, the case is
classified as a death investigation. Family and friends of the
child came in and out of the Miami Gardens home on Monday, many too
upset to speak. The investigation was turned over to North Miami police.

NORTH MIAMI, Fla. (WSVN) -- Police have arrested a man and charged him with the murder of
a 1-year-old girl found deceased at a Miami Gardens home.



Police announced the arrest of 23-year-old Timothy Bodden Thursday afternoon
for the murder of Kianna Meus. He is the boyfriend of the girl's aunt.
The family said the death was the result of an accident in a North Miami Apartment
on Sunday, where Bodden lived. "She just tried to walk for herself," said Esmene Meus,
the grandmother of the little girl in an interview Tuesday.

However, police are not calling it an accident but murder. "This individual was charged with
second degree murder because the investigators felt this was not an accident ...
that he was responsible for her death," said North Miami Police Lt. Neal Cuevas.

The child was brought to the aunt's home in Miami Gardens on Monday
and pronounced dead on the scene. "Timothy Bodden took the child to
the child's relatives' home in Miami Gardens," explained Cuevas.
"At that point, it was discovered that the baby was not breathing.
Fire rescue responded, they couldn't resuscitate and she was pronounced dead."

Bodden now sits behind bars at the Miami-Dade County jail with no bond, charged with murder in the second degree.

The Department of Children and Families had assigned the child to the custody
of her aunt after declaring the child's parents unfit to care for her.
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Timothy Bodden, 23, has been charged with Second Degree Murder in the death of Kianna Meus.

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