A Murray County grand jury has indicted a Chatsworth man for felony murder after an autopsy report referred to “shaking” head trauma in the death of his daughter in November 2010, a court officer said.
Isaac Whaley, formerly of a G.I. Maddox Parkway address where the alleged incident occurred, was charged with felony murder and cruelty to a child on Wednesday, said Assistant District Attorney Bert Poston, who presented the case on Monday.
Whaley took his four-and-a-half-month-old daughter, Jaidyn Alexis Whaley, to Murray Medical Center unconscious on Nov. 17, 2010, and she died two days later at T.C. Thompson Children’s Hospital in Chattanooga, officials said.
“An indictment warrant was issued ... (and) there is a $50,000 bond that was agreed to by his attorney,” Poston said. “He is expected to turn himself in later this week.”
Whaley is currently not represented by counsel, according to an attorney who represented his family before the indictment but said his firm would most likely not continue as attorneys of record.
An eight-page autopsy report from the state crime lab dated June 13, 2011, detailed in an “opinion” section that the cause of Jaidyn Whaley’s death was “traumatic head injury” and the manner of death was “homicide.”
“The autopsy discloses ... findings (that are) consistent with accelerated rotational (shaking) mechanism of the head trauma,” the autopsy report states. “A focus of occipital scalp hemorrhage represents a probable blunt force component.”
Poston said grand jury findings must be returned in open court to the presiding judge, and the first chance to do that was Wednesday.
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