Investigators say the child died on Sunday, June 15, 2008, from internal bleeding. According to the Mississippi County Medical Examiner, 3 year-old E-Shana Vornes had been beaten.
Osceola Police say Antwonette Henderson, 25, did not call 911 when she says her daughter started having seizures. Instead, detectives say, Henderson got a ride to the Blytheville hospital, bypassing the hospital in Osceola.
Henderson told police she did not want to go the Osceola hospital because of an argument she had with a doctor during a previous visit on May 25, 2008. In that case, Henderson told a doctor E-Shana fell off a bed and hurt her head. But the doctor said that it looked like the toddler had a skull fracture from being beaten with something and not from falling off of a bed.
After her daughter’s death on Sunday, Henderson told police that the three year-old was eating cereal when she started having a seizure. Henderson says she heard something and walked out of her bedroom to see what was going on when she saw E-Shana on the floor.
Police say E-Shana died in the Blytheville hospital from internal bleeding. The little girl had fresh bruising inside of her mouth and bruises were still forming on her belly when they arrived at the hospital, according to investigators.
Henderson has been charged with Child Endangerment and is being held on $150,000 bond at the Mississippi County Jail.
