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Share Photo: (Photo : ADEK BERRY/AFP via Getty Images) A Florida woman was charged with the first-degree murder of her former ward, who died in 2019 at the age of 35. Forensic experts testified that Benjamin Dowling's death had been linked to the shaken baby syndrome he experienced under Terry McKirchy, the babysitter who cared for him when he was 5-months-old. In 1984, McKirchy was hired to look after Dowling. The baby's mother took him to a doctor when she noticed that he had breathing difficulties and his body was limp. The doctor told the family that the baby had se...

A former babysitter who served a few months in jail for shaking a 5-month-old boy so forcefully 37 years ago that he suffered permanent brain damage now faces a possible life sentence after his death from those injuries in 2019, at age 35, officials said. Terry McKirchy, 59, who now lives in Texas, was arrested again on July 2 after a grand jury in Broward County, Florida, indicted her on a first-degree murder charge in the death of Benjamin Dowling, prosecutors said this week. She was taking care of him at her home in Hollywood, Florida, on July 3, 1984, when he had difficulty breathing, the...

Death from Florida shaken baby case leads to murder charge for babysitter Terry McKirchy got a light sentence 36 years ago for shaking 5-month-old Benjamin Dowling, but Dowling’s 2019 death has prompted a grand jury to indict her on a first-degree murder charge.     This undated booking photo released by the Fort Bend County Jail in Texas shows Terry McKirchy. McKirchy is charged with murder stemming from a decades-old shaken baby case. McKirchy pleaded no contest in 1985 to attempted murder for shaking 5-month-old Benjamin Dowling so severely that he suffered permanent brain dama...