{"id":493693,"date":"2026-10-12T16:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/493693\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T16:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:50:13","slug":"trial-begins-for-couple-charged-with-murder-in-death-of-2-year-old-girl-in-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/493693\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial begins for couple charged with murder in death of 2-year-old girl in Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) &#8212; Opening statements will be presented Monday in the trial of a couple charged with murder in the death of a 2-year-old girl in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Chandy McCarthy, the child&#8217;s mother, and Gregory MacDonald, her boyfriend, are having their cases heard separately, with opening statements in McCarthy&#8217;s trial beginning Monday morning while MacDonald&#8217;s trial starts at 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Gregory MacDonald, file image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"538\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/kget_bakersfield_articles_800\/1eedf01a0cd5470c956adc1ff70e758b.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Gregory MacDonald, file image<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">17 News will live blog the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Oct. 10, 2024, police were called to a home in the 300 block of Vernal Place in central Bakersfield to a report of a child in medical distress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The girl was taken to Memorial Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. She had bruising over much of her body, according to court filings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say MacDonald abused the child for months and McCarthy knew about it, did nothing to stop him and &#8220;likely contributed.&#8221; MacDonald was previously arrested in Nevada on suspicion of harming the child, according to the filings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) &#8212; Opening statements will be presented Monday in the trial of a couple charged with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-493693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}