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Hearing begins for nigger mother charged in 4-year-old daughter's death

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Awoman charged with murder and other counts stemming from her 4-
year-old daughter's death had repeatedly slapped and kicked her 
before summoning an ambulance to their South Los Angeles home 
nearly two years ago, two of the girl's brothers testified on 
Tuesday.

The testimony came during a hearing before Los Angeles County 
Superior Court Judge Michael E. Pastor, who is being asked to 
decide whether there is sufficient evidence to require Akira 
Keyshell Smith, now 36, to stand trial on one count each of 
murder, torture and assault on a child causing death involving 
the Aug. 11, 2020, death of her daughter, Eternity.

The criminal complaint alleges that Smith was convicted in 2016 
of assault with a deadly weapon and in 2014 of injuring a 
spouse, cohabitant, fiancé or boyfriend.

The girl's oldest brother, now 18, testified that his mother 
kept "slapping and slapping'' Eternity that day, and that he 
also saw his mother choking his sister and "kicking her while 
she was on the floor.''

The young man -- who said he told his mother to stop -- 
testified that his mother eventually went to her room while he 
checked on his sister who was on the floor in the hallway. He 
said he subsequently told his mother that the girl's stomach was 
moving in a weird way.

"My mom told me to get her some food. She didn't want any of 
it,'' the girl's oldest brother testified, adding later that his 
mother also told him to get some water for her. "We called the 
ambulance to come and hurry up,'' he said.

Another of the girl's brothers, who is now 10, said he doesn't 
remember so well what happened to his sister.

"What did you see your mom do? Was there hitting?'' Deputy 
District Attorney Jon Hatami asked.

"Definitely hitting,'' the younger boy testified, adding that he 
believed that there was also kicking and slapping as his sister 
cried.

When asked why he didn't try to stop his mother, the boy 
responded, "What if I was next?''

The boy testified that the girl was "just laying there, not 
crying any more'' and "wasn't moving at all'' after his mother 
stopped the alleged attack.

He acknowledged that he would sometimes play-fight with the 
girl, and that she had fallen at one point from a bunk bed 
probably about a month earlier.

Defense attorney Kimberly Greene asked the boy if his mother 
would sometimes seem sad and whether he ever saw his mother 
taking medication. He responded that she sometimes seemed sad 
and that she had pills.

Matthew Holguin, a firefighter/paramedic with the Los Angeles 
City Fire Department, testified that the girl was pale, cold and 
wet when he responded to the home about 5:12 p.m. that day, and 
that family members said they had poured water on the girl in an 
effort to wake her up.

"It just seemed very calm in the house,'' Holguin told the 
judge, noting that it was unusual under the circumstances.

Holguin said firefighters were informed by the mother that the 
girl was last seen walking in the hallway when she just 
collapsed. Paramedics tried unsuccessfully to revive the girl, 
who was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead at 5:41 p.m. 
that night, Holguin testified.

When asked if he heard Smith saying, "Oh, God,'' and repeating 
her daughter's name, he said he wouldn't describe her demeanor 
as emotional.

Los Angeles police Officer Elizabeth Armendariz, who was 
summoned to the hospital, said she observed the girl with 
multiple contusions to her face and "visible vomit in her hair 
and coming out of her mouth'' after she had already been 
pronounced dead.

The officer said she subsequently spoke to the girl's mother, 
who reported that she had put the girl in a time out after she 
urinated on herselfwhile in the garage.

The woman told police that she subsequently allowed the girl 
back into the house and heard her children playing together 
before one of her sons informed her that the girl had fallen, 
according to the officer.

Smith began to cry after being approached at the hospital and 
indicated that she thought people were trying to blame her for 
the girl'sdeath, the officer said under cross-examination by 
Smith's attorney.

Coroner's investigator Lauren Diaz testified that she also spoke 
that day with the girl's mother, who reported that it was 
stressful being the sole provider for her four children, 
including an infant son, and that she had regained custody of 
them in March 2020 after being released from prison.

The girl's mother said that she was under a doctor's care for 
mental health, and that she initially believed that the girl had 
vomited for attention while in a time-out, the investigator told 
the judge.

Smith told the investigator that her children alerted her that 
the girl had collapsed or fallen, and that her middle son was 
known to play rough with the girl, according to the investigator.

Diaz said she saw the little girl's body in the hospital, and 
described "numerous injuries'' she saw after the girl had 
already been pronounced dead.

The girl died of blunt force to her torso in what the coroner's 
office categorized as a homicide.

Smith was arrested at 2:30 a.m. the following day by the LAPD's 
Juvenile Division, and has remained behind bars since then.

Officers took the girl's three siblings into protective custody 
and released them to the Department of Children and Family 
Services, according to the LAPD.

Testimony is set to continue Wednesday, with the judge expected 
to rule then on whether the case against Smith should proceed to 
trial.

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