Eldersburg Man Found Guilty in Infant’s Death

A jury this week convicted an Eldersburg man of second-degree murder in the 2009 killing of his girlfriend’s infant daughter, according to the Carroll County Times.

Donald Ray Pevia Jr. was acquitted of a manslaughter charge in Carroll County Circuit Court but found guilty of second-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault, first-degree child abuse resulting in death, first-degree child abuse resulting in severe physical injury, second-degree child abuse having care and custody of a child and second-degree child abuse by a household member, according to the article.

He is being held without bail pending sentencing scheduled July 7.

On March 3, 2009, Ky'leigh Rogers, 8 months, was taken to Carroll Hospital Center with breathing trouble. She died later that day.

Pevia had come to his girlfriend’s room with the baby in his arms and told her something was wrong with Ky'leigh, according to an article by ABC2 News.

An autopsy suggested the infant died from blunt force trauma, according to the article.