while Shaffer was driving to McDonalds with a car full of kids one afternoon. As Alissa sat in her car seat, Shaffer grab her by the hair and smashed the baby girl’s head into her car seat.

The beating continued until Alissa lost consciousness and lapsed into a coma. Alissa’s brothers were in the back seat and watched their aunt murder their baby sister. With Alissa’s now lifeless body strapped into her car seat, Shaffer continued about, renting a movie and ordering happy meals for the rest of the children. She then drove home and got the rest of the kids inside and eating. Finally Shaffer returned to the car to retrieve Alissa. She callously brought her niece’s dead body into the home and waited for hours before callingher brother, who is an EMT. The brother rushed to the home and found Alissa, already cold to the touch, not breathing and with no heartbeat. He then called 911 and began CPR. Emergency personal and a team of doctors tried for 45 minutes to revive Alissa, but it was far too late, Alissa had passed away hours before.

Alissa’s autopsy revealed all of the horrific injuries she suffered with in silence. Alissa’s cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head, but that is only where it began. Bruises and lacerations covered Alissa’s body and face, her hair had been ripped out. She suffered from multiple deep mouth lacerations gouged into open sores. Alissa also suffered broken elbow, and a growth plate displacement. Her internal injuries were