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Woman, 14, accused of beating her 79-year-old grandmother to dying after teen moved from Ukraine

Woman, 14, accused of beating her 79-year-old grandmother to dying after teen moved from Ukraine


A 14-year-old Ukrainian woman who lately moved to Florida is being charged as an grownup within the brutal beating dying of her 79-year-old grandmother.

The teenager was charged with manslaughter on Tuesday and is at present in protecting custody at Broward County Jail. The costs had been introduced by Broward County officers 4 months after the deadly beating.

Deputies responded to the crime scene on Could 23 and located the grandmother unresponsive at her condominium in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida. Her belt and walker, that are each believed to have been used within the killing, had been discovered close by, based on an arrest affidavit obtained by Regulation&Crime.

The sufferer, who was pronounced useless on the hospital, suffered head trauma, intensive bruising and inside bleeding, an post-mortem revealed. She additionally had contusions of the scalp, hemorrhaging on the scalp, and bleeding in her mind.

Cell phone footage obtained by WPLG shows police outside the Lauderdale Lakes condo in Florida where Yevheniia Koval was found dead on May 23
Cellular phone footage obtained by WPLG reveals police exterior the Lauderdale Lakes condominium in Florida the place Yevheniia Koval was discovered useless on Could 23 (WPLG)

Koval’s father instructed investigators that the teenager had been having behavioral points, which he believed had been from the battle she witnessed in Ukraine and her being separated from her mom, based on the affidavit.

On the day of the killing, he took his daughter’s cellular phone from her as punishment and left her alone along with her grandmother. When he returned house after midnight, the lady was unresponsive. When he requested his daughter what occurred, she responded that her grandmother had scratched her, the affidavit stated.

“Because of this, she needed to defend herself,” the doc stated. “Sofia Koval instructed her father that she struck the sufferer a number of occasions with a belt. Sofia Koval began crying and stated she was sorry for what she had carried out.”

The teenager was in custody and later instructed investigators by a Ukrainian translator that her grandmother “was already dying and that she helped her die,” the affidavit stated. She allegedly confessed to hitting her a number of occasions with a belt.

Due to her feedback made whereas in custody and her habits, which seemed to be  agitated and aggressive at occasions, she was taken to a hospital for a behavioral well being analysis.

After Koval’s court docket look on Tuesday, she was transferred to Broward County Jail.

The utmost attainable penalty for the offense is as much as 15 years in jail however it is usually attainable that due to her age, if convicted, she could possibly be sentenced to juvenile sanctions within the juvenile justice system, based on Regulation&Crime.

Written by bourbiza mohamed

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