{"id":778,"date":"2026-01-27T20:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=778"},"modified":"2026-01-27T20:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:59:13","slug":"perfect-12-week-old-baby-dies-after-being-left-alone-with-dad-24-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Perfect\u2019 12-Week-Old Baby Dies After Being Left Alone with Dad, 24, \u2018for the First Time\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"egloos-content\">\n<p>A 12-week-old baby girl named Lyla Samuels has passed away in the state of Maine after being left alone with her 24-year-old father, Shawn Samuels.<\/p>\n<p>Sources from local media outlets were seen speaking about how this was the first time that the child was under her dad&#8217;s care alone.<\/p>\n<p>The Emergency Services shared more about how they received a call last week after a 911 report detailed that Lyla was not responding at the family&#8217;s residence in Orrington.<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.egloos.ai\/draft\/images\/body\/20260126\/20260126191915_Shawn-Samuels-baby-012526-25930ce7377c4311864095ccb2f314ca.webp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The first responders managed to revive her for a brief period of time, and she was taken to Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, but soon died from her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation found that she suffered from several kinds of injuries, including four broken ribs, brain swelling, and retinal hemorrhages.<\/p>\n<p>These signs were consistent with fatal abuse, they confirmed. The chief medical examiner shared that the cause of death was a homicide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.egloos.ai\/draft\/images\/body\/20260126\/20260126191924_Lyla-012526-44abb914191243988fea65d6853541cd.webp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"PC_egloos_da_article_body02\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"ats-insert_ads-4-wrapper\" class=\"insert_ads insert_ads-6\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Shawn Samuels was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence and elevated aggravated assault. After the results of the autopsy, he&#8217;s now being charged with murder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"PC_egloos_da_article_body03\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"ats-insert_ads-5-wrapper\" class=\"insert_ads insert_ads-8\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleBody_body-info__yFPGQ\">\n<div class=\"ArticleBody_body-actions__pUmXJ\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A 12-week-old baby girl named Lyla Samuels has passed away in the state of Maine after being left alone with her 24-year-old father, Shawn Samuels. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=778\" title=\"\u2018Perfect\u2019 12-Week-Old Baby Dies After Being Left Alone with Dad, 24, \u2018for the First Time\u2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}