12 On Your Side Investigates: Records reveal years of red flags for mother charged in sons’ deaths

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Dakota Taylor, 21, faces murder charges in the deaths of two infant boys separated by four years, with juvenile court records revealing warning signs documented years before her arrest.

Dakota is charged with two counts each of malice murder, felony murder and cruelty to children in the first degree in the deaths of 7-month-old Micah Taylor and 8-month-old Caleb Taylor.

Micah died Sept. 13, 2021, while in Dakota’s care at Little Debbie’s 2nd Chance Homes, a group home for teenage mothers in DeKalb County…

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