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Thursday, June 10, 2010 | 3:18 p.m.
Kevin Taylor
Death investigation
A 20-year-old North Las Vegas man has been charged with murder by child abuse in connection with the death of his 1-year-old daughter.
North Las Vegas Police spokesman Tim Bedwell said officers were called to a house in the 2200 block of McCarran Street at 7:23 p.m. June 4 on reports that a child wasn’t breathing. While en route, officers were told by paramedics that the child had gone into cardiac arrest, according to an arrest report.
The girl, identified as Kaitlyn Taylor, was hospitalized in critical condition with several broken bones in her ribs and clavicle, as well as cerebral bleeding, police said.
Detectives interviewed her father, Kevin Taylor, who said he was playing with Kaitlyn and hitting her with a cotton pillow when she started to cry and went limp. He said he tried to shake the girl and poured water on her, the report said. Kaitlyn was still unresponsive.
Medical officials said the girl’s injuries weren't a result of a cotton pillow. Taylor told officers he often plays rough with Kaitlyn and his other child because he doesn’t want them to grow up and “be taken advantage of.”
According to police, Taylor said he would grab Kaitlyn by a leg and arm, swing her around and throw her on the bed and pillows against the wall, the report said. Police said Taylor also told detectives he would push the girl’s face down into the bed forcefully.
Police arrested Taylor June 4 on one charge of child abuse with substantial bodily harm. The girl died Tuesday, according to the Clark County Coroner’s Office. Her official cause of death hasn’t been determined.
Taylor is now being charged with murder by child abuse. He was arrested in 2009 for child abuse with substantial bodily harm and is on parole, police said.
He is currently being held in the North Las Vegas Detention Center with bond set at $750,000. This is the ninth murder in North Las Vegas this year.
maybe having an immediate death penalty for these scumbags that murder innocent babies and children.......would act as a deterrent to other would be child beaters? probably not, but they should be exterminated immediately anyway for doing such hideous things to children!!!!!!!!
and he is not a man, he is a monster!
I moved to Vegas two years ago, and seemingly on a daily basis I read news of either motorcycle deaths or people murdering their children. Real nice place you got here.
How is playing rough with a 1 year old supposed to make them tough?
Where does that type of thinking come from?
Taylor told officers he often plays rough with Kaitlyn and his other child because he doesn't want them to grow up and "be taken advantage of.
Well you succeeded!
Hank Williams Jr. says it best " I'd like to spit some beechnut in that dudes eye and shoot him with my ole 45 "
This SOB was out on parole. What's wrong with the parole and probation division and the court system in Nevada.
never trust someone with a meth beard.
Sg123, why don't you leave then, we don't want you either. Every big city in the nation has problems like these. Don't put down the entire city because of a handful of N LV scumbags.
Luvthadirt - I'm here for my job, working, and contributing to society. Which seems to be more than a lot of Las Vegans seem to be able say. And when my commitment is up, you can guarantee that my family and I are packing up and leaving, which seems to be the best move for both me and you.
And nice job furthering the Las Vegas stereotype.
Betcha big BUBA is going to be playin rough with this boy tonight. And God grant him a long long time to play rough with lots of big boys.
Previously convicted of child abuse, I'm repeating my comment from under the stepmother/ 3 year old death. given a second chance, the other parent is equally as guilty. This is the 3rd case reported in the Sun since the beginning of the year, 4th if you want to include the woman who allowed her child to drown, while leaving the back door to the pool open, and going for a walk, she also had to have CPS step in the past... these killers must be illiterate to not know there are options if they don't want or can't handle children.
There is so much evil in the valley.
I love the homers that rush to defend Las Vegas.
Though other cities have similar problems, Las Vegas is THE WORST in just about every "problem" category they've come up with.
Cumulatively, they add up to a mess of misery.
Anyone who thinks it's "just a few yahoos up in North Las Vegas" is seriously deluded.
Please double bag when disposing of trash such as this pile of sheeat.
Oh I really hope this punk gets what is coming to him! And I hope it's really really rough. Karma.....
This is not to be believed.....This animal has no clue about what he has just done.Too think this is his 2nd offense like this and now because he was allowed near a child...one has DIED at his hands.To top this...the dumb court systems is allowing a bond to be issued.
Love Vegas, but it does draw a lot of bottom feeders. Gets a lot of transient types who stay for a couple months and then move on. Also gets its fair share of gambler wannabes who think they are the next Phil Ivey. They usually crap out in a few months and head home. Then you also get the fine, upstanding type pictured above who settle here. They end up dead or just drain social services. Sometimes end up in prison. The next question is why is a 19 year old having babies when he can't support a hamster? Life goes on and each and everyday there are more and more scumbags that crawl out of the woodwork.
Look folks, let's not talk about this sad sad dude preferring to relive his self-made nightmare experiences on a day-by-day/night-by-night basis.
I can only talk from my own experiences, look:
I always save my 1$ for a good condom, because love is cheaper that way.
I love to have babies and that's why I have five little kids all of almost the same age in five different cities.
I never pay my child support to their mothers, because love is cheaper this way and of course I let them call me, because love is cheaper that way.
(sarcasm)
Come on, guys like him must have mixed up sex and love, because love always thinks of the counterpart and puts responsibility first ahead of having your own fun.
So if he is always out for some quick cheap fun without any responsibility, or if he thinks that f_ck is funny, why doesn't he just f_ck himself, ...to save the money.
Or at least why did he not use his brain to make it look like an accident like the more wealthy more clever pool-drowners do? (sarcasm)
In my opinion if all that energy and evil plans and actions killing or abusing minors everywhere all over the world were used to do somethig more positiv, we would have paradise here on earth.
I would wish to all these monsters killing or abusing minors of any age to get castrated as soon as possible without any use of narcotics.
Ok, ok, ... I was enraged and I take it back, since I do not want any human being or animal on this whole wide earth to get castrated.
I was just commenting in such a rude way, because I considered those rude practices to be an easy cheap way out... curing such monsters.
And I do not take it back to make myself someone better. What for?
@gmag sums it up succinctly. Homers tend to defend all the home court depravity. Let's face it, LV (and NV in general) is home to a lot of deadbeats, derelicts, and deranged individuals. We don't have the resources to police and jail them all. We have to wait until they commit heinous crimes.
Here's the problem...Las Vegas has become the penal colony for every piece of trailer trash the rest of the U.S. doesn't want or need...when jobs here were cheap and plentiful, the vermin moved in. Now that the economy has tanked, we can't get rid of you all.
For things like Taylor there should be a judge in waiting to immediately convict and then order summary execution by the police.
hopefully this creep will off himself.
The system will take care of this scum. He'll wish he were dead by the time bubba and bubbas friends are done with him. He'll be squealing like a pig and wishing the pleasure palace was anywhere else but prison. Have fun Bubba, give him some real love! Let it be known to him what he did was wrong and he best take like man and smile the entire time!