CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – Trial begins Monday for two children accused in the beating of a 5-year-old Cleveland girl, more than a year after her mother found her injured in a field.
“I literally saw the worst thing ever,” Antavia Kennibrew, the girl’s mother, said in an interview with 19 News in 2025.
The trial for the boy, now 9, and the girl, now 11, starts Monday morning.
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Case background
The girl was assaulted on Sept. 13, 2025, in a field near East 148th Street and St. Clair Avenue in Cleveland. The Cleveland Division of Police Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Unit investigated the case, which involved multiple children under the age of 10 as both victims and suspects…