Shannon McBride pleads guilty in her daughter's death

YOUNGSTOWN — An Austintown woman has pleaded guilty to obstructing justice and permitting child abuse in the April 6 death of her 23-month-old daughter.

Shannon McBride, 22, of North Navarre Avenue, entered her plea today before Judge Maureen A. Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

McBride had been charged in the events leading to the death of her daughter, Makenzie McBride, while she lived in the Compass West apartment complex.

In the plea agreement, an aggravated murder charge against her and the death-penalty specification accompanying it were dropped, and she agreed to testify truthfully against her co-defendant, Shawn E. Davis, 25, of Compass West, when he goes on trial Jan. 10, 2011.

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