Babysitter charged with murder after 5-month-old boy dies in Florida

Barbara Kendrick

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Florida woman who admitted to throwing a 5-month-old into his playpen while babysitting him is facing a murder charge after the baby died from his injuries.

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Police were called to a home on Davis Road on March 7 after getting reports of a baby that was not breathing.

Barbara Kendrick, 65, admitted to police that she threw the baby, Cooper Dubovik, into his playpen.

Cooper was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Doctors determined the child had internal injuries that resulted from some type of trauma, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said.

He died of his injuries on March 8.