'Bring her back to life': 3 women charged with murder in case where 6-year-old was allegedly 'duct taped' for days, 'forced to stay in a dog crate' and weighed 27 pounds when she died

Three women successful North Carolina person been charged with execution months aft kid maltreatment and torture near a 6-year-old miss dead, according to instrumentality enforcement successful the Tar Heel State.

As of this week, Susan Robinson, 61, Tonya McKnight, 51, and Tery'n McKnight, 22, basal accused of execution successful the archetypal grade implicit the Dec. 16, 2025, decease of 6-year-old Dominique Moody.

The trio was originally arrested implicit the people of respective days precocious past twelvemonth connected 1 number of intentional kid maltreatment resulting successful superior carnal wounded and 4 counts of misdemeanor kid abuse.

On the greeting successful question, constabulary received a telephone saying the miss was not breathing, according to an affidavit for transgression charges obtained by Law&Crime. Dominique would soon beryllium pronounced dead.

"The victim's hair, nails, and assemblage were dirty," constabulary wrote successful the charging document. "She had unfastened wounds and scarring successful assorted stages of healing covering astir of her body."

Officers accidental Tonya McKnight is liable for duct-taping and wrapping the kid successful integrative wrapper – maltreatment allegedly captured connected cellphone images. The pistillate allegedly starved the small miss for implicit a twelvemonth arsenic "punishment for galore things," including eating nutrient successful the house, according to instrumentality enforcement.

Many allegations are sourced to Robinson.

The charging papers reads, astatine length:

She suggested that Dominique Moody is forced to ticker them eat, and Tonya McKnight does not provender her each day, adjacent though the location has plentifulness of food. She besides advised that Dominique Moody is forced to beryllium successful her soiled, urine and feces-filled diaper for days and days. This caused the utmost rash connected Dominique's genitals and buttocks. This abuse/neglect was reported to person occurred for astir 1.5 years.

At the clip of her death, Dominique lone weighed 27 pounds.

The miss had besides been "forced to enactment successful a canine crate successful the surviving room" earlier staying connected "the feces-filled bath floor," constabulary said.

The oldest defendant, on with the youngest – who is Tonya McKnight's girl – are some accused of "failure to instrumentality immoderate enactment to remedy the problems caused by Tonya McKnight." All 3 pistillate lived successful the location connected Gwynne Hill Road successful Charlotte on with 4 different children betwixt the ages of 5, 4, 2, and 1, authorities say. The placement and information of the different children is not yet a substance of nationalist record.

"The unkempt and inhospitable authorities of the residence, the children residing amongst rats and cockroaches, the children being bitten by rats, the residence's regular deficiency of heat, and the duct taping are good known to each 3 individuals," the affidavit alleges.

It was besides acold successful the house.

According to police, the oven successful the kitchen, a abstraction heater successful the surviving country and a abstraction heater successful a chamber were the lone sources of vigor for the children. The abstraction heater successful the surviving country sat connected a factual artifact connected the floor, pointed toward a cot successful beforehand of a couch.

"The debased somesthesia during overnight hours was 20 degrees," the affidavit reads.

Some of the different children said Dominque was placed successful beforehand of the stove to lukewarm her up "and bring her backmost to life," according to tribunal documents obtained by Charlotte-based CBS affiliate WBTV.

Robinson and Tonya McKnight besides allegedly exchanged messages aft Dominique's death, acknowledging they were "in trouble" and needed to cleanable up the house, according to different affidavit filed successful the lawsuit and obtained by Charlotte-based NBC affiliate WCNC.

"The unfortunate was highly small," 1 affidavit reads. "She had a healed ligature people going each the mode astir her close ankle and linear healed scars connected apical of her close arm. On apical of her close ft and outer close limb were healed circular scars. The unfortunate had an unfastened circular coiled connected the outer near ankle, which appeared to beryllium a burn. She had assorted insignificant unfastened wounds connected her knees, face, arms, and legs."

An introspection of Dominique's assemblage showed a "fracture to the close pinky toe, which was older and healed," according to police. She besides had aggregate little rib fractures connected some sides of her body.

On Thursday, Mecklenburg District Court Judge Cecilia Oseguera denied enslaved for each 3 women. They are being detained successful the Mecklenburg County Jail.

Chris Perez contributed to this report.