{"id":332426,"date":"2026-08-29T02:36:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332426\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T02:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:36:47","slug":"mom-shot-11-month-old-son-in-the-face-so-dad-could-never-have-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332426\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom shot 11-month-old son in the face so dad could never have custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mother kidnapped her 11-month-old son and shot him in the face because she didn\u2019t want the boy\u2019s father to have custody over him \u2014 chillingly telling investigators she thought the killing was \u201cworth it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Madeline Veronique Daly, 36, was convicted this week of killing baby Basil Stoner inside of an RV in rural New Mexico, as cops closed in on her, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=122207689094798367&amp;set=a.122101091312798367\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">prosecutors said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities had responded to the RV after the mom snatched the boy and took him across state lines in violation of a court order.<\/p>\n<p>She then tried to turn the gun on herself, but officers were able to subdue her, according to an arrest affidavit <a href=\"https:\/\/cowboystatedaily.com\/2025\/12\/26\/mom-says-she-doesnt-know-why-she-shot-11-month-old-was-too-slow-to-kill-herself\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">obtained by Cowboy State Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Basil Stoner was shot dead by his mother on Dec. 23, 2025. GoFundMe<\/p>\n<p>After her arrest, Daly told police she believed she was keeping her son \u201csafe\u201d \u2014 and\u00a0that killing the child was \u201cworth it\u201d if it meant the boy\u2019s father and parental relatives would never have the chance to see him.<\/p>\n<p>Daly had taken Basil from Wyoming to New Mexico, violating a court order that had granted emergency custody to the child\u2019s father, who told investigators he had last seen his son on Sept. 28.<\/p>\n<p>The Grant County Sheriff\u2019s Office tracked her down to an RV park on Dec. 23 after she applied for a job near Silver City and a warrant arrest popped up on her background check.<\/p>\n<p>Police saw her run inside an RV and surrounded it as they waited for a warrant to get inside.<\/p>\n<p>Madeline Daly pleaded guilty to first degree murder Wednesday. 6th Judicial District Attorney\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Then they heard a single gunshot and rushed in to see Daly had fatally shot Basil with a 9mm handgun in the face.<\/p>\n<p>Daly told police that she kidnapped her own son because\u00a0 \u201cshe was not going to allow her (then) 8-month-old baby go back and forth from Nebraska to Wyoming twice a month,\u201d according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen asked what went through her mind when she saw law enforcement walking up, she replied, \u2018Jake can\u2019t get Basil,\u2019\u201d police wrote in the document.<\/p>\n<p>Madeline Daly, Jake Stoner and Basil Emeric Daly. A mother shot her 11-month-old son in the face so the father could never have custody. Washakie County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>She also made unsubstantiated claims that Basil \u201cwould have been in danger and molested\u201d if she got out of the trailer with him and that his father \u201cnever wanted anything to do with\u201d the boy \u201cfinancially, physically, emotionally ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daly pleaded guilty on Wednesday to first-degree murder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She is facing the maximum sentence of life in prison, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother kidnapped her 11-month-old son and shot him in the face because she didn\u2019t want the boy\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7986,303,2106,238,9,11,10,58],"class_list":["post-332426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-babies","tag-crime","tag-mexico","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}