Foster Parents Accused of Beating 3-Year-Old Girl with Autism to Death: Prosecutors

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Ring camera footage allegedly shows nan mates punching, kicking and yanking nan woman by her hairsbreadth successful nan weeks starring up to her death

Published connected June 12, 2025 05:27PM EDT

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Jamie and Raymond Johnson were arrested connected June 6 aft their 3-year-old foster girl pinch autism died from blunt-force trauma successful March
Surveillance footage from nan home, reviewed by investigators, allegedly shows nan mates striking, kicking and yanking nan woman by her hairsbreadth successful nan weeks earlier her death
The foster parents were charged pinch felony murder, kid maltreatment involving a unfortunate nether 6 and kid maltreatment involving a unfortunate nether 12, according to online jailhouse records

A North Dakota mates is facing execution charges aft allegedly beating their 3-year-old foster girl pinch autism to death, according to tribunal documents.

Jamie Johnson, 44, and her husband, 62-year-old Raymond Johnson, brought nan kid — who had been successful their attraction for conscionable a fewer months — to nan infirmary successful Stanley, North Dakota connected March 19, per tribunal documents reviewed by nan KFGO, KFYR-TV and Valley News Live.

She was unresponsive and covered successful bruises; aesculapian unit reportedly attempted life-saving maneuvers, but nan kid was pronounced dormant soon aft her arrival.

A later autopsy wished that nan girl's origin of decease was blunt-force trauma to nan head, per nan documents.

In nan documents, authorities elaborate a disturbing, pervasive shape of abuse.

Surveillance footage from nan location reviewed by investigators allegedly showed nan foster mother punching nan toddler successful nan head, yanking her by her hairsbreadth truthful violently that nan child's caput struck floors and furniture, hitting her pinch a woody spoon and covering her rima to soundlessness her cries.

The girl's foster begetter was besides seen allegedly striking and kicking nan child.

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The mates was arrested connected June 6 and charged pinch felony murder, kid maltreatment involving a unfortunate nether 6 and kid maltreatment involving a unfortunate nether 12, according to online jailhouse records reviewed by PEOPLE. Bond for some parties is group astatine $1 million.

Their adjacent tribunal proceeding is scheduled for July 24.