WHITE PLAINS, NY – A New York mother pleaded guilty to killing her six-year-old daughter.
On Easter Sunday 2015, the Croton-on-Hudson Police Department received a 911 call from David Carr, the father of the victim, requesting that police respond to 144 Hastings Avenue reporting that is daughter is cold and not breathing.
Upon arrival at the scene, police and medical personnel entered the residence and went to the second floor where they discovered the body of Lacey Carr lying on the bed unresponsive and not breathing.
Lacey was placed on the floor and CPR was performed.
Additional personnel arrived on scene and since the child was being treated, they tended to the mother, Kathleen Dymes who was in a kneeling position at the side of the bed on the floor. She, too, was unresponsive.
Lacey Carr was pronounced deceased at 1:27 p.m. Both the mother and the child’s body were then removed to the Phelps Memorial Hospital.
Later that day, a search warrant was executed and in the second floor bedroom, where the body of Lacey Carr was discovered, police observed an open bottle of alcohol along with various and numerous over the counter, prescription and illegal drugs strewn about the room.
In addition, two handwritten notes were recovered from the bedroom.
“As alleged in the indictment, this defendant failed in her most basic role as a mother and caregiver: to ensure the safety and well-being of her child. As a former nurse, she could know only too well the dosage and interactions of the drugs her daughter had ingested that lead to her death,” said District Attorney Janet DiFiore.
She is charged with Criminally Negligent Homicide, Endangering the Welfare of a Child, among drug charges.
