Grandmother charged in the death of 2-year-old Bloodvein First Nation girl – Winnipeg [Video]

An eastern Manitoba woman is in custody after the death of her grandchild.

On Jan. 24 at around 8:30 p.m., RCMP were called to a nursing station in Bloodvein First Nation, a community about three and a half hours northeast of Winnipeg.

Two-year-old Jessiah Young was brought into the nursing station with serious injuries and was pronounced dead.

An autopsy confirmed the death was a homicide, and the girl’s primary caregiver, 56-year-old Burma Skye, was arrested.

The accused is charged with second-degree murder. The investigation is ongoing.

The girl’s aunt, Roberta Goosehead, had been caring for her until the fall until she gave Jessiah to her grandmother, also in Bloodvein, and Goosehead knew something was off right away.

“At Christmas time we weren’t even able to take gifts to her, we had to send them through a third party, her Christmas gifts,” said Goosehead, “The last time I (saw) Jessiah and got …