A Marion County man arrested after the fatal beating death of a 3-year-old girl now faces homicide charges while the girl\u2019s mother was also arrested for child neglect.<\/p>\n
The Marion County Sheriff\u2019s Office announced the new charges Wednesday in the February death of Paisley Brown. Jeroen Jarrel Coombs, 32, had already been in custody for aggravated child abuse stemming from the Feb. 19 incident. He now faces a new charge of second-degree murder.<\/p>\n
Paisley\u2019s mother, Jennifer Farrah Kendrick, 26, has now been arrested on two counts of felony child neglect in addition to a felony probation charge.<\/p>\n
Sheriff\u2019s deputies had responded to a residence on NE 44th Avenue in Citra, north of Ocala, after a report that the 3-year-old was unresponsive. She was transported to an area hospital where she later died from her injuries, according to a sheriff\u2019s office press release.<\/p>\n
Deputies had been told Paisley had been struck multiple times by Coombs, who was attempting to leave the scene, the release stated. He was detained while the major crimes division completed its investigation.<\/p>\n
Detectives discovered Coombs had been home alone with children at the residence that morning and while he told the mother, Kendrick, that her daughter was unresponsive at 10:58 a.m., a 911 call was not made for another 40 minutes.<\/p>\n
Coombs told detectives he had caused the injuries and was arrested that day. In a followup interview with Kendrick on March 4, she told detectives she did not know about the abuse, but was confronted with evidence that she was aware that Coombs had previously bound and abused her daughter.<\/p>\n
Kendrick admitted she failed to protect her daughter and that her lack of intervention allowed the abuse to continue, which contributed to the 3-year-old\u2019s death, the sheriff\u2019s office stated.<\/p>\n
Kendrick was transported to the Marion County Jail, where Coombs has remained since his initial arrest. The two are being held without bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Marion County man arrested after the fatal beating death of a 3-year-old girl now faces homicide charges…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[112,28,30,29,114,266,115,109],"class_list":["post-179226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}