Warning: Some readers may find the information in this article disturbing. WBMA -- The co-defendant in the murder case of Kamille McKinney told police she witnessed her boyfriend, Patrick Stallworth sexually assault the three-year-old girl the night she was kidnapped, according to testimony during a preliminary hearing Friday.
Attorneys for both Brown and Stallworth have tried to point fingers at the other person for McKinney's death in hearings held this week. Brown denied any knowledge of what happened to McKinney until she was interviewed for a fourth time by police according to testimony by Birmingham Police Detective Johnathan Ross. Ross noted the interview occurred after Stallworth was released on bond for child pornography charges during the course of the investigation.
Ross said Brown admitted to police she was with Stallworth in the Tom Brown Village on October 12th but said she claimed she did not see McKinney until the couple stopped at a Jet Pep gas station after leaving the public housing complex. No explanation was given for how the child ended up in the SUV. Ross testified surveillance video from the gas station showed Brown calmly walking in and out of the gas station to buy a bottle of lemonade.
She told police she woke up in the middle of the night to witness Stallworth forcing the three-year-old to perform oral sex on him. Ross, a year veteran of the Birmingham Police Department, became visibly upset as he recounted the graphic details of the sexual assault Brown described to police.
Jefferson County Circuit Judge Clyde Jones paused the proceedings to allow members of the audience to leave. Both of McKinney's parents were present in the courtroom for the entire hearing. Brown admitted to taking ice - a street-name for methamphetamine and Trazodone, an anti-depressant which can be used to make someone drowsy. Both drugs were also found in McKinney's autopsy report. McKinney was killed by asphyxiation by suffocation according the report.
