Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, August 13, 1994 TAG: 9408150031
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LEESBURG LENGTH: Short
Peeze, 19, did not comment on her arrest in the death of Brenton Scott Devonshire. The 8-week-old baby died Aug. 6.
``She doesn't have any comment for anybody. She's just glad to be out,'' defense lawyer Rodney G. Leffler said as he ushered the woman through a gate draped with barbed wire at the Loudoun County jail.
Peeze will live with a Loudoun family pending her trial. A Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court judge ordered the family's identity kept secret.
Stephen and Sharon Devonshire of Ashburn, the infant's parents, did not appear in court. They have not responded to requests for an interview.
Peeze did not enter a plea Friday. Her lawyer has said she denies harming the child. She is charged with involuntary manslaughter, which carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.
Police say Peeze shook the infant so hard that his brain was fatally damaged, a condition known as shaken-baby syndrome.
Peeze had been on the job as a live-in nanny for two weeks when the boy was injured.
by CNB