‘Brain bleeds’: Mother charged with murder and child abuse after infant daughter dies on New Year’s Eve

Maya Dennis appears inset against an image of the street she lives on in Aberdeen, Maryland.

Inset: Maya Dennis (Harford County Sheriff’s Office). Background: The street Dennis lives on in Aberdeen, Maryland (Google Maps).

A Maryland mother was recently arrested and charged in connection with her infant daughter’s death, authorities say.

Maya Marie-Iman Dennis, 32, stands accused of one count of each of murder in the first degree and first-degree child abuse, according to the Harford County Sheriff’s Office.

The extremely young victim in the case has been identified as a five-and-a-half-month-old baby girl, Old Line State law enforcement say.

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