A mother charged with murder in the death of her 8-month-old daughter in Brookhaven has been denied bond.
Shavone Whitehead will remain in the DeKalb County jail as the case against her proceeds after a judge denied her request Wednesday, the district attorney's office said.
The woman's daughter, Kamonie, died two weeks after she stopped breathing at the Microtel Inn on Aug. 1. A detective testified in September that Whitehead had said she and her boyfriend, Edward Wilson, sometimes disciplined the child because she was "crying all the time." Sometimes they used a belt, police said.
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Wilson has also been denied bond.
A clear picture of what happened hasn't been made public. But police said a security camera at the hotel showed the boyfriend suddenly come out of the room in "panic mode" looking for the child's mother shortly before calling 911.
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