TENNESSEE WOMAN CHARGED WITH RAPE AND MURDER OF TODDLER

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Police in West Tennessee have charged 24-year-old Molly Jane Roe with the rape and murder of17-month-old Maleeya Marie Murley.  Maleeya was flown to Monroe Carell Jr. Children’sHospital in Vanderbilt in Nashville on June 7 with a severe brain injury.  During anexamination doctors discovered severe bruising to her hips, abdomen and vagina.  They alsodiscovered a bite mark on her back.  She received her brain injury when Roe threw her, causingher to hit her head on a blunt object.  Maleeya was the daughter of Roe’s boyfriend whowas not involved in his daughter’s death.  Roe is being held without bond.
(Tennessee)