Mother searching for truth in central Ohio baby's death ...Middle East

COSHOCTON, Ohio (WCMH) -- Years after the death of a central Ohio 15-month-old, her mother is still pleading for answers. 

Graclynn Young died in the care of a babysitter in 2021. That babysitter is now serving three years for child endangerment, but Graclynn’s death is still being investigated as a homicide. 

NBC4 Investigates spoke with the child’s mother, who is asking anyone who knows something to come forward. 

Documents show Graclynn died from multiple blunt force trauma to her head during the timeframe she was in her babysitter’s care, but Coshocton County Sheriff’s investigators have hit a wall. The other people who had access to Graclynn in the timeframe experts estimate she received the deadly injury are now staying silent. 

“That little girl was the happiest baby in the world. The only time she cried was if somebody was eating around her and she wasn't,” Graclynn’s mother Cheyene Untied said. 

That’s how United remembers Graclynn: happy and always hungry. 

“Cheeseburgers were her favorite meal,” Untied said. 

She would have been five years old, but she died at 15 months after a skull fracture caused by multiple blunt force trauma. 

“There were four separate points of impact at minimum, so there is no way that it was an accident,” Untied said 

Testimony from a former forensic neuropathologist for the City of New York, who served as an expert in the trial, states: “This is on the order of the type of injuries that I saw in New York City of, you know, babies being pushed in a stroller and getting hit by a car.”

Kristin Neff, the Coshocton babysitter taking care of Graclynn that day, was found guilty of child endangerment in August. 

“It was a relief because this may be the only justice Graclynn ever gets, but frustrated because it also may be the only justice she ever gets,” Untied said. 

While Neff is serving time, Graclynn’s case is still being investigated as a homicide. 

The detectives investigating this case say right now there isn’t enough evidence to convict anyone of homicide.  

“I'm exhausted,” Untied said. “The fight is not over, so I don't get to sit back and relax and continue with my life.”

The court transcript shows six people had access to Graclynn around the estimated time of her injury: Neff, her three minor children, her fiancé, and his mother, who is a neighbor. They have not been charged with a crime, so NBC4 is not naming them. The transcript states, and other sources confirm, they are suspects in Graclynn’s death.

“There were six people there that day, which is why we can't get the homicide charge quite yet,” Untied said. 

The neighbor runs childcare out of her home in Coshocton. NBC4 Investigates found four complaints to the Ohio Department of Children and Youth going back to 2022 about that daycare. Because she has not been convicted of crime, she is allowed to keep the daycare open. 

NBC4 Investigates spoke with Neff’s lawyer. She advised those who were named as suspects to invoke their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during Neff’s trial, and they did. 

NBC4 also spoke with a Capital University law professor about the Fifth Amendment.

“At any point, in the middle of an interview, at trial, at any point where you feel that an answer would incriminate yourself and expose you to criminal liability, you may refuse to answer,” Capital University Assistant Law Professor Robert Barnhart said. 

Now the case has stalled, if someone knows what happened, they haven’t come forward, but detectives are not closing the case. 

“Criminal law is just very fundamentally human, and you need other human beings to explain what happened or who was responsible,” Barnhart said. “What doesn't happen a lot, oddly enough, in criminal law is that people don't talk -- defendants, suspects, witnesses talk to the police all the time. They talk to the police all the time after being told explicitly they don't have to.”

Untied is holding out hope that is what happens so she can get answers. 

“If we can save one kid by telling Graclynn’s story, then Graclynn’s death served a purpose, and it sucks but sometimes that's what it takes to make change,” Untied said. 

Neff was sentenced to three years in prison. She is appealing. 

Detectives continue to investigate, and if more evidence is found, tomorrow or years down the road, they will file additional charges.

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