INDIANAPOLIS (Court TV) — Jury selection is scheduled to begin this week for a woman accused of killing her young daughter by starving her and confining her to a closet.
Toni McClure (Marion County Jail)
Toni McClure, 31, has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, criminal confinement resulting in bodily injury and battery on a person less than 14 years old in the death of her daughter, 5-year-old Kinsleigh Welty.
Police responded to McClure’s home on April 9, 2024, and found Kinsleigh severely malnourished and unconscious. At 5 years old, she was 38.5 inches tall but weighed only 21 pounds — less than she weighed when she was 2.5 years old. Officers described her as being extremely thin with sunken eyes, a bruise on her face and fecal matter matted on the bottom of her feet and in her hair. She had lice or other small insects crawling on her face and hair and had unknown bites or sores on her abdomen…