Daisai Derzon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daisai Derzon was two years old when her biological parents went to prison, their parental rights terminated, and Daisai and her two siblings were placed in foster care. Within two months, the children were moved to another foster home across the state in Grand County where Daisai would die of a severe blow to the head within a year.

 

 As new foster parents, Michelle and Robert Baber had received glowing reports from a court guardian and social services workers. About a half year after they took in Daisai and her brothers, the Babers were approved to adopt the children. Before that adoption could be finalized, Michelle Baber called 911 in to report she found her 3½ year old foster daughter, who“does weird stuff in her sleep,” pounding her head against a wall. Three days later, Daisai was dead of a closed head injury after being removed from life support. For weeks, Michelle Baber stuck to the “sleepwalking” story before adding theories that Daisai might have hurt herself when she slipped in a bathtub or that Baber might have dropped Daisai while carrying her. Fifteen days after Daisai died, Michelle Baber finally admitted that she had struck Daisai in the head. She was sentenced to 16 years in prison.

 

 

 

 

 

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