Justin and Jamie Whited are accused of abusing their infant Dinah Whited who succumbed to her injuries.
Not yet 6 months old, a once-battered and beaten Dinah Paige Whited lay motionless in a Georgia hospital bed, where her parents - accused in the abuse that put her there - were allowed to say their last goodbyes before their baby girl took her last breath.
Her father, Justin Whited, is charged with aggravated battery for an April 23 beating that left her small body full of broken bones and a bleeding brain, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Her mother, Jamie, is charged with cruelty to children for failing to stop him.
Both were granted permission to see her Monday morning before doctors in Atlanta removed "Baby Dinah" from the machine that had been keeping her alive.
Neither of the parents' attorneys were immediately available for comment.
Friends and family members said the couple, who had been together since their teen years, struggled with drug abuse and domestic issues, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Jamie Whited's mother told the newspaper that her daughter had been in legal trouble for possession of methamphetamine and, police said, Jamie later admitted that she was on prescription painkillers the day her child nearly stopped breathing on her own.
Her mother said Justin Whited, who also allegedly abused drugs, was angry and controlling - once taking a swing at his wife and putting his fist through a wall.
Justin's mother disputed the accusations.
Indeed, from the outside, neighbors said they seemed a happy family of three. "They seemed like good people," Mary Strong, a neighbor, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution last month. "I didn't see them argue."
In April, Dinah's maternal grandmother, Paige Carson-Barrett, posted a photo on Facebook showing the then-nearly 2-month-old.
"Look who is all dressed up and ready to go shopping," Carson-Barrett wrote about the baby girl, who was wearing a soft, pink hat and blue floral dress. "Dinah Paige is spending the weekend with her Gammy."
Just a week later, her young life was coming to an end.
The morning of April 23, Justin Whited dialed 911.
He told police that when he woke up, his daughter was wailing and gasping for air, according to court documents cited by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Her lips turned blue and, eventually, she went quiet.
Police pulled up to the home in Monroe, near Atlanta.
"As I was talking with Justin and Jamie Whited, I was a little puzzled that they weren't showing any emotions," an officer wrote in the report, according to the newspaper. "Mr. Whited appeared to be calm and collected and Ms. Whited had been standing in the doorway, emotionless."
A neighbor told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that paramedics carried the baby, who "looked lifeless," from the house and rushed her to a nearby hospital.
There, doctors determined that her brain no longer functioned, but for months they were unable to remove her from life support because her father wouldn't consent.
"The doctors [have] made several attempts by conference calls to the father in jail to explain this baby will never live a normal life," Susan Ronnie Ogle, a family friend, wrote on a GoFundMe page for the child. "She will never walk, talk, or play. She has no quality of life."
"Please continue to pray for this sweet baby girl and her family," she added. "The decisions they face are unbearable."
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that once his daughter died, Justin Whited could be charged with her murder. He ultimately agreed to allow her to be removed from life support.
Carson-Barrett, Dinah's grandmother, wrote on Facebook in June that the infant's family had all but lost her.
"We love Dinah Paige and will miss her everyday but under the circumstances we have been missing her for a long time already," she wrote. "Please know how grateful and blessed we are for each and everyone of you."
On Monday afternoon, Justin and Jamie Whited were transported from jail to the hospital in Atlanta where, a juvenile court judge had ordered, the infant would be removed from life support and allowed to die.
Shortly after 3 p.m., according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, she took her last breath.
"Dinah went to be in the arms of our Lord yesterday at 3:31," someone posted on her paternal grandparents' Facebook page. "They took her off life support at 12, and she was a fighter, she hung on for a while. But we now know that Dinah is healed and happy and with our father. Our hearts are burdened and broken, but knowing where she's at gives us peace.
"Please continue to pray for our family, but we still have a long road ahead of us with other issues surrounding Dinah."
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