{"id":172927,"date":"2026-04-22T15:55:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/172927\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:55:42","slug":"more-charges-filed-in-pittsburgh-area-child-abuse-homicide-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/172927\/","title":{"rendered":"More Charges Filed In Pittsburgh-Area Child Abuse Homicide Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

PITTSBURGH, PA \u2014Additional charges have been filed in the death last year of Renesmay Eutsey. The 9-year-old girl’s body was found partially submerged in Youghiogheny River in Westmoreland County.<\/p>\n

Renesmay’s grandmother, Theresa Marie Shipley, 63, and Sandra Lynn Umensetter, 51, a family friend, are charged with endangering the welfare of children and recklessly endangering another person, according to the Fayette County District Attorney’s Office. <\/p>\n

Kourtney Eutsey and Sarah Shipley already have been charged in connection with the death.<\/a><\/p>\n

Sh<\/a>ipley 35, and Eutsey, 31, have been charged with criminal homicide, aggravated assault, child endangerment and corruption of minors.<\/p>\n

Fayette County District Attorney Mike Aubele released the following statement on the matter.<\/p>\n

“On March 16, 2026, we received an autopsy report and other documents from the Westmoreland County Coroner’s Office, which confirmed that Renesmay died of malnourishment and neglect; additional causes included blunt force trauma to the head, neck, torso, and extremities. <\/p>\n

“The primary cause of death is identical to the alleged injuries against a 7-year-old victim who was hospitalized but survived. <\/p>\n

“Additionally, cellular analysis was performed on the defendants’ cell phones, which confirmed numerous dates and times in the months before Renesmay’s death that these two were in the care, custody, and\/or control of the children in the home. <\/p>\n

“In short, the children in the home were subjected to severe child abuse and neglect over a long period of time. These two defendants were present for it and supervised these children during the times they were severely abused; they did nothing to help them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH, PA \u2014Additional charges have been filed in the death last year of Renesmay Eutsey. The 9-year-old girl’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-172927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-pittsburgh","9":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","10":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}