Family told little girl's school they were taking trip to Disney World so they could keep her home and kill her slowly: DA

A "sadistic" household successful New York told a little girl's schoolhouse they were taking a travel to Walt Disney World truthful they could support her location and torture her, prosecutors say.

Jor'Dynn Duncan, property 7, ne'er got to spell to "The Most Magical Place connected Earth," according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office. Instead, her guardians allegedly kept her location and brutalized the youngster until she yet died from a "massive untreated infection" stemming from crisp unit injuries.

"The Suffolk County Medical Examiner's Office documented astir 90 injuries connected her assemblage astatine the clip of the victim's death," a press release from the DA's bureau says.

District Attorney Raymond Tierney describes Jor'Dynn's slaying arsenic a cruel and "brutal" execution of a "defenseless, guiltless child" who was placed successful the attraction of Emily Kelly, 50, her parent Barbara Renner, 75, and Kelly's biologic daughter, Elyssa Seymore.

Tierney says the household was granted afloat custody of Jor'Dynn — arsenic Kelly is the fiancee of her begetter — successful April 2025 by Suffolk County Child Protective Services. They allegedly spent astir a twelvemonth torturing, imprisoning and abusing her until she died successful precocious December 2025.

"This was not an alleged azygous enactment of violence," Tierney explains. "It was months of alleged systematic cruelty and sadistic abuse, meticulously documented. The kid was allegedly near to dice portion these defendants watched her deteriorate."

According to the DA's office, Jor'Dynn missed schoolhouse astatine slightest 40 times betwixt January 2025 and June 2025. "Kelly allegedly provided fabricated excuses involving antithetic illnesses, deaths successful the family, and a travel to Disney World — each of which were allegedly utilized to conceal the abuse," Tierney says.

Kelly called 911 connected the greeting of Dec. 29, 2025, to study that Jor'Dynn was "in cardiac arrest," according to the DA's office. Paramedics and authorities arrived to the country to find the kid unconscious. She was transported to NYU Langone Hospital-Suffolk, wherever she was pronounced dead.

"No kid should ever endure specified horror," Tierney says. "We volition question justness for Jor'Dynn."

Kelly, Renner and Seymore were each arrested and charged Wednesday.

Kelly faces charges of second-degree murder, reckless endangerment, unlawful imprisonment and kid endangerment; Renner is charged with second-degree manslaughter and kid endangerment; Seymore is charged with unlawful imprisonment and kid endangerment. They're each owed backmost successful tribunal connected June 23.