Authorities Say 10-Month-Old Suffered 'Severe Head Trauma' Leading to Her Death — Now Mother Is Charged By Christine Pelisek

An Ohio mother has been formally charged in connection with the 2022 death of her 10-month-old daughter.

Daisha Somers, 27, was indicted on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025 on charges of murder, involuntary manslaughter, felonious assault, corrupting another with drugs, endangering children and aggravated possession of drugs, according to an Ohio Attorney General’s Office news release.

She was arrested in West Virginia on Friday, Dec. 19, and extradited back to Ohio on Tuesday, Dec. 23.

The case came to light on Nov. 20, 2022 after Somers’ daughter, Ka’myla, was taken to the hospital with “severe head trauma,” per the attorney general’s office.

In a previous press release from Nov. 30, 2022, the Hocking County Sheriff’s Office said investigators responding to the incident “observed that the child had extensive bruising to the face and head. It was also believed that the child’s skull was fractured, and she was not breathing on her own.”

The infant was put on life support and a short time later, taken by medical helicopter to Nationwide Children’s Hospital Trauma Center in Columbus where she died three days later on Nov. 23.

According to the sheriff’s department, Somers and her boyfriend initially said “they heard a loud ‘thud’ in the early morning hours. They stated when they went to find out what the sound was, they allegedly found the child had fallen out of her toddler bed, and struck her head.”

911 was not called at that time, per the press release.

The sheriff’s office claimed that Somer’s boyfriend later changed his story, alleging he discovered Ka’myla “unresponsive and not breathing while Somers was doing laundry at another location.”

 Somers allegedly admitted to smoking methamphetamine in interviews with police, per the release.

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“During the investigation, detectives were able to find that falling out of the toddler bed was inconsistent with the trauma she had suffered,” the release states. “This included approximately seven skull fractures, bleeding of the stomach, blood in the urine, retinal hemorrhages, multiple strokes, and prolonged cardiac arrest.”

Somers and her boyfriend were initially suspected of endangering children in 2022, but those allegations were dismissed for possible indictment by a grand jury, The Logan Daily News reported. He is not facing any charges as of Tuesday, Dec. 23.

Somers has yet to enter a plea in the case.