LANSING. (AP) — A New Jersey man who served more than three years in prison for injuring his baby daughter in 2002 has been charged with murder in Michigan after her death last year was attributed to complications from those injuries.
Marcus Claudius Oglesby, 33, was charged with murder late last month, the Lansing State Journal has reported.
The Runnemede, New Jersey, man was returned to Michigan and was being held pending a hearing on whether the case goes to trial.
Oglesby, who lived in Lansing when his daughter was hurt, has said the injuries were accidental. But an expert testified in 2003 that abuse was to blame.
Oglesby faces up to life in prison, if convicted.
A jury in 2003 convicted Oglesby of second-degree child abuse, court records show.
He’d been alone with the girl when she was hurt. Keyaria Oglesby died Nov. 29 at age 13 and an autopsy determined her death stemmed from circumstances related to the abuse case, prosecutors said.
During the child abuse trial, Catherine Emerson, an assistant Ingham County prosecutor, told the jury that the girl suffered bleeding in her brain and wouldn’t be able to walk, talk or feed herself.
Emerson described the child as “just living dead.”
