Projo 7 to 7 News Blog

By Amanda Milkovits
Journal staff writer

NEWPORT, R.I. -- Rachin A. McCoy, the 21-year-old man accused of beating his 6-week-old daughter to death, was ordered held without bail on a murder charge this morning in Newport District Court.

More than a dozen of McCoy's family and friends from Festival Field Apartments, where he lived with the baby and her mother, stood at the back of the first-floor courtroom. Some wore shirts with the baby's face and her name, Naiomi.

The Newport police say McCoy told detectives that the baby had suffered a fractured skull and ribs when she fell off the couch while he was watching her, but the medical examiner's office determined this weekend that the baby died of "fatal child abuse syndrome," suffering from blunt trauma to her head, torso and extremities.

McCoy, dressed in a baggy black T-shirt and baggy jeans, said little in court except to answer the judge's questions.

He is also being held without bail as an alleged probation violator for a conviction of assault and possession of marijuana.

McCoy is scheduled for a bail hearing on Feb. 17. As he was led from the courtroom in handcuffs, his mother, Lori Moody, whispered to him, "I love you. Stay strong."

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