Tuesday, April 2, 2013
The indictment was handed down March 28.
A Cobb County grand jury has indicted a Smyrna woman on murder charges in connection with the June 2012 starvation death of her mentally challenged teenage daughter. The indictment alleges that Ebony Espree Berry, 36, of Smyrna, failed to provide adequate nutrition and medical care for Markea Berry, 16, said Kim Isaza, the spokeswoman for Cobb County District Attorney Vic Reynolds. It was the afternoon of June 15, 2012, when officers went to a home on Concord Road in reference to an unresponsive girl. Inside the home, they found Markea Berry's body. She weighed just 43 pounds. It was not the first time Cobb police had come to the girl's aid. In 2010, when she was 14 years old, Markea Berry wandered away from home. At the time, police told …
Friday, August 3, 2012
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On Aug. 19, 2010 Cobb Police issued an alert for a missing mentally disabled girl. The 14-year-old girl, Markea Berry, was found hours later at the Walmart on East-West Connector less than a mile from her Concord Road home in Mableton. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution,Markea wrote in her journal that she’d rather live at the store than at home. She told police she ran away because she didn’t want to burden her now 38-year-old mother, Ebony Berry. At 14, Markea was so small that she looked 9. Two years later, Markea was found dead, weighing only 43 pounds, in the home police took her back to that night in 2010. Sgt. Dana Pierce told South Cobb Patch that the main priority for police when they issue alerts for missing persons is…
Thursday, June 21, 2012
The family of the mother who allegedly starved her teen daughter to death believes a Mableton cardiologist who teaches that hunger is "wonderful" may have influenced her to do so.
Family members of a Mableton teen who was starved to death over the weekend believe a Mableton cardiologist’s “hunger” teachings may have influenced the teen’s mother. Markea Blakely-Berry, 16, was discovered severely malnourished in her Mableton home on Concord Road on Friday. Cobb police have arrested and charged her mother, Ebony Berry, with murder. It was later revealed that Markea was mentally challenged. Berry’s family noticed that she had a Facebook connection with Dr. Andrew Chung, a cardiologist living in Mableton who encourages hunger and eating only 32 ounces of food a day, according to Grand Rapids’ WOOD-TV 8. Berry and her daughter once lived in Grand Rapids. Chung, a familiar face to many in South Cobb, often is found at …
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