'Nothing I say is going to fix this, is it?': Mom spent drunken 'girls night' sending Snapchat videos in the hours before she found her 5-week-old baby dead, police say

A Maryland pistillate faces murder charges aft constabulary said she caused the decease of her 5-week-old girl aft a booze-soaked "girls night."

Destiny Faith Chiveral, 24, was charged with first-degree murder, second-degree murder, kid maltreatment resulting successful the decease of a kid nether 13 years old, and kid maltreatment resulting successful terrible bodily wounded aft her 5-week-old girl was recovered dormant astatine a residence successful Rising Sun connected Dec. 4. According to Maryland State Police, the babe was pronounced dormant astatine the scene and the authorities agency's homicide portion took implicit the investigation. Court documents obtained by section quality outlet Cecil Whig outlined Chiveral's evident "girls night" that took a tragic turn wrong hours.

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According to the Cecil Whig's reporting connected the tribunal documents, Chiveral and her 2 children lived with her grandma successful Charleston, Maryland, connected a regular basis. On the nighttime of Dec. 3, Chiveral was astatine different person's residence successful Rising Sun for a "girls nighttime out." When Chiveral woke up astatine 9 a.m. connected Dec. 4, she noticed her babe girl, identified arsenic K.C., was unresponsive and called 911.

Police said that paramedics noticed K.C. was "cold, lifeless, and had intelligibly been deceased for immoderate time," noting that "slight rigor mortis" had already acceptable successful and they could not widen the baby's legs. K.C. was pronounced dormant astatine 9:17 a.m.

Chiveral told constabulary that the babe indispensable person "rolled successful betwixt a sofa cushion and the rear of the couch." An autopsy determined her origin of decease to beryllium blunt unit trauma, citing "bleeding to the backmost of the brain," and different grounds of trauma.

According to the documents, investigators confiscated Chiveral's telephone and recovered a nationalist integer relationship of what allegedly occurred successful the hours starring up to the baby's death. In a fig of Snapchat videos sent from Chiveral's relationship betwixt 11:06 p.m. connected Dec. 3 and 1:34 a.m. connected Dec. 4, detectives determined that Chiveral "became intoxicated" portion she was with K.C. successful the Rising Sun residence. Police said that the babe tin beryllium heard crying successful respective of the videos.

In 1 video, Chiveral reportedly wrangled with a babe gross portion drunk and vaping, constabulary said. She tin reportedly beryllium heard saying, "I'm excessively (expletive) drunk for that. I'm conscionable going to (expletive) ascent implicit the (expletive) (expletive)."

In different video, portion Chiveral was successful the bathroom, she said, "I don't cognize if you perceive the (expletive) babe trippin' successful the background" arsenic the babe cried successful the background.

Police said the past video she sent depicted her with the hiccups, saying, per the documents, "She's (expletive) tri-(hiccup) trippin'… But speech that, like, she's the chillest babe until she's (hiccup) huffy astir thing similar (yawns) this is the baddest that she's been successful a wh-(hiccup) portion and if I tin archer you the beverage that I know, you'd beryllium like, but honestly I emotion you but don't spot you capable to archer you…"

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A antithetic video taken astatine 1:34 a.m. showed the babe alive. Police wrote that a framed representation connected the partition that was consecutive successful the video was observed to beryllium "significantly ajar."

Chiveral told constabulary that she lone had 1 portion and "one Smirnoff shot." Police recovered a "nearly bare vessel of vodka" successful the residence that a witnesser said belonged to her. The witnesser told constabulary that the vessel was astir afloat erstwhile she enactment it successful the freezer days earlier.

Police interviewed Chiveral a 2nd time, aft the autopsy was conducted connected her daughter, and informed her that K.C.'s decease was ruled a homicide. She was told astir the injuries recovered connected her daughter, and said, "I curse I ne'er did thing to her… I would ne'er bash that," according to tribunal documents.

As she attempted to travel up with a imaginable mentation for her daughter's injuries, Chiveral claimed that she would sleepwalk erstwhile she drank. She besides suggested that she could person kicked the babe portion they some slept connected the sofa together. Police said Chiveral besides told them that her older child, a toddler, was "rough" with the baby, but the toddler was astatine their father's location that night.

Police said that during the 2nd interview, Chiveral said, "Nothing I accidental is going to hole this, is it? No substance what, I'm going to beryllium blamed for her death, ain't I?"

Chiveral was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, second-degree murder, kid maltreatment resulting successful the decease of a kid nether 13 years old, and kid maltreatment resulting successful terrible bodily injury. She is successful custody astatine the Cecil County Detention Center, wherever she is being held without bond. Her adjacent tribunal day is scheduled for Jan. 9, 2026.