Greensboro police: Mother, grandmother arrested in connection with infant's 2025 death

Greensboro police: Mother, grandmother arrested in connection with infant's 2025 death

Officers responded shortly after noon on June 18, 2025, to an apartment in the 5200 block of Hilltop Road, where they found a 9-month-old girl unresponsive.

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Insets (left to right): Kerry Blackburn and Desiree Blackburn (Guilford County Sheriff’s Office). Background: Hilltop Road in Greensboro, N.C. (Google Maps). The mother and grandmother of a 9-month-old girl who died last year in North Carolina have been charged with the baby’s murder. Kerry Blackburn, 54, and Desiree Blackburn, 34, were both charged with second-degree...

Mother and grandmother arrested in death of 9-month-old Greensboro girl

The women also are accused of negligent child abuse causing serious injury in connection with the death of a 9-month-old girl, according to a police news release.

Mother, grandmother arrested after infant dies in Greensboro in apartment on Hilltop Road, police say

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) -- A mother and grandmother were arrested this month in connection to the death of an infant in Greensboro last year, according to a Greensboro Police Department news release. On June 18, 2025, around 12:11 p.m., GPD officers, Greensboro firefighters and Guilford County EMS personnel responded to the 5200 block of Hilltop [...]