Prosecutors have filed new charges against a mother of an 18-month-old slain last year.A new bill of indictment charges Deanna Renee Kipp with concealing the death of another and providing false statements to police in two separate interviews after her daughter Kaylee Kipp’s June 2011 death.Kaylee died as the result of several blows to the head. Police say her mother and Stephen Clark West, Deanna Kipp’s boyfriend, were responsible.Last month, West was convicted of one count of malice murder, four counts of felony murder, three counts of cruelty to a child in the first degree and one count each of aggravated assault and cruelty to a child in the second degree.The indictment filed in Hall County Superior Court on Friday no longer states that Kipp directly caused her daughter’s death as a previous indictment did. Friday’s indictment states that she caused her daughter’s death “as a party to the crime.”Kipp faces one count of malice murder, four counts of felony murder, five counts of cruelty to a child in the first degree and one count each of aggravated assault and cruelty to a child in the second degree.Deanna Kipp is also charged with failing to seek medical care for Kaylee after the beating took place that eventually killed her.In addition to being responsible for her toddler’s death, prosecutors allege that Kipp also caused her two older daughters “cruel and excessive physical and mental pain by inflicting repeated beatings and hair pulling and forcing and holding their heads into a pillow.”One of the charges of cruelty to a child comes from an allegation that allege Deanna Kipp asked her oldest child to go check on her sister in bed, “knowing Kaylee Kipp was deceased,” according to court documents.Kaylee was found unresponsive at an apartment complex on Gainesville’s Riverside Drive last year.Police determined the child had been dead for quite some time before they were called.Two other children in the home also were found to have bruising and injuries that were “highly suspicious” of abuse, according to court testimony from a nurse practitioner who examined the children on the day of Kaylee’s death.
Woman faces new charges in childs death
Kipp accused of murder in death of infant girl; boyfriend already convicted