On Saturday morning a Tampa mother accused of killing her infant daughter learned that she would have to remain in jail. She appeared before the judge over closed-circuit television.<\/p>\n
Tampa Police arrested Ms. Eboni Shameeca Thompson,<\/strong> 31, Friday afternoon in connection with the death of 4-month-old Markala Thomspon. <\/strong>The infant died Tuesday night.<\/p>\n According to police, the father, Marcus L. Harden,<\/strong> 38, said he left his home for about 20 minutes to go to the store and left Ms. Thompson<\/strong> at the house. When he returned, Ms. Thompson<\/strong> was holding the child on the couch.<\/p>\n A short time later, she placed the infant in her bassinet. When Harden <\/strong>checked on the infant a short time later, he discovered that she was not breathing and called 9-1-1. The baby was transported to St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n Police said Ms. Thompson<\/strong> did not have custody of the infant and was not supposed to have unsupervised visitation. She allegedly fled the scene when police attempted to interview her Tuesday night, but police were able to locate her.<\/p>\n Police interviewed Ms. Thompson <\/strong>on Wednesday and again on Friday, after receiving the report from the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office. The autopsy report revealed the infant had multiple broken ribs and a broken arm.<\/p>\n [private]According to police, Ms. Thompson <\/strong>confessed to chocking her baby until she stopped crying and eventually stopped breathing. She told police she pretended the baby was still alive when Harden<\/strong> returned home. Ms. Thompson<\/strong> also allegedly admitted to abusing the infant several times over the last four months.<\/p>\n There were four other children, three girls ages 4, 6, and 17, and a 21-month-old boy living with Harden.<\/strong> Those children are now in custody of the Department of Children and Families.<\/p>\n Ms. Laura McElroy,<\/strong> spokesperson for the Tampa Police Department said, the investigation is continuing and police have not decided if Harden<\/strong> is going to be arrested for leaving the children with Ms. Thompson<\/strong> without supervision.<\/p>\n Ms. Thompson<\/strong> was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse with great bodily harm and aggravated child abuse. She is being held at the Hillsborough County Jail.[\/private]<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Saturday morning a Tampa mother accused of killing her infant daughter learned that she would have to remain in jail. She appeared before the judge over closed-circuit television. Tampa Police arrested Ms. Eboni Shameeca Thompson, 31, Friday afternoon in connection with the death of 4-month-old Markala Thomspon. The infant died Tuesday night. According to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}