Fort Lauderdale: Death from 1985 shaken baby case leads to murder charge
By The Associated Press Troy Warren for FortLauderdaleNewsAndTalk.Com FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Babysitter Terry McKirchy got a light sentence 36 years ago after pleading no contest to attempted murder for shaking 5-month-old Benjamin Dowling so severely that he suffered permanent brain damage — weekends in jail for three months and three years probation. But now McKirchy is facing a possible life sentence after a Florida medical examiner says Dowling succumbed to those injuries when he died in 2019 at the age of 35 after a life with severe mental and physical disabilities. A Broward County grand jury recently indicted McKirchy, 59,…