An evil man who r*ped a little 10-month-old girl to death after taking her to the basement of their apartment has been nabbed.
Benjamin Ryan Taylor
A shameless and heartless man has brutally r*ped a little 10-month-old baby to death.
Family members said doctors pronounced the infant brain-dead Tuesday night. Family members were gathered at Charleston Area Medical Center waiting for the infant’s mother, Amanda Adkins, to sign the papers to take the child off life support.
“Amanda’s main concern was that there was going to be some miraculous event and that [the baby] is going to open her eyes,” said Danielle Adkins, the mother’s cousin. “I just think reality just hasn’t hit her yet.”
According to WvGazetteMail, Jackson County sheriff’s deputies arrested Benjamin Ryan Taylor, 32, of Cottageville, on Monday on a charge of sexually assaulting the baby.
It was gathered that while the rest of the family slept upstairs in their Ripley apartment Sunday night, Taylor took the baby to the basement, where he assaulted her, according to a criminal complaint filed in Jackson Magistrate Court.
The baby could not survive the ordeal
When the baby’s mother woke up, she found her daughter n*ked on the basement floor, she immediately called for help. Deputies later said they found blankets and clothing covered in blood down there, according to the complaint.
As they handcuffed him, Taylor tried “vigorously” to wipe something off his groin area, deputies said. Jackson County Sheriff Tony Boggs said the charge against Taylor, currently first-degree sexual assault, will be upgraded to murder.
“I’ve been here 25 years, and we’ve never encountered something of this nature,” Boggs said. “I don’t know if we’ve had anything like this near here.”
The baby was taken to a local hospital, then to Charleston because of her injuries. Emergency room doctors told deputies that the baby’s traumatic injuries likely were suffered several hours beforehand, according to the criminal complaint.
An overwhelming amount of messages of support for Amanda Adkins and her family has been pouring in via text and Facebook, Danielle Adkins said.
