4 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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0:00.0 | Birmingham United Kingdom. Shaiyan Downer was born to a drug-addicted mother and her father was in prison. |
0:15.7 | This little girl fought for her life with high amounts of heroin in her system at birth and was in intensive care |
0:21.8 | for five days, and then in foster care where she thrived and grew into a happy and healthy |
0:27.2 | toddler. Ten months later, in January 2015, Cheyenne would be given to Candice Downer, a mother of four |
0:36.2 | and a distant relative by marriage to Cheyenne's father. |
0:40.2 | Downer changed the baby's name from Cheyenne to Keegan. Cheyenne was no more. |
0:45.5 | And eight months after that, Keegan would be dead. |
0:48.9 | Dead with facial injuries, that one pathologist likened to what you would generally |
0:53.6 | only see from a victim of a |
0:55.3 | high-speed car crash. And with a spiral leg fracture, that would have caused the 18-month-old |
1:01.1 | baby excruciating pain from only the slightest movement. This is a horrific story of child |
1:07.3 | abuse and murder and child protective services that had so many red flags. |
1:13.0 | If only they took notice and this little girl's life could have been saved. |
1:17.7 | This is Keegan's story. |
1:23.7 | 18-month-old Keegan Downer was described in court as a happy baby and toddler. |
1:29.5 | This is Kegan just weeks before what the jury was told would have been an excruciating death. |
1:35.5 | She had more than 150 injuries, including a broken leg and seven broken ribs. |
1:40.8 | And the person who did it was her legal guardian, 35-year-old Candice Downer. |
1:46.6 | She was an extended family member and had agreed to take Keegan in months before. |
1:52.6 | Cheyenne Rose Gigi Downer was born March 9th, 2014, and she would immediately be transferred |
1:59.3 | into the neonatal intensive care unit. |
2:02.4 | She was born premature and low weight, with high amounts of heroin found in her system. |
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