Overview
- The Oklahoma County district attorney on Dec. 8 filed first-degree murder and two animal-cruelty charges against Darci Lambert, 24, and Jorden McGuire, 34.
- Police say officers found 2-year-old Locklynn Rose McGuire dead on Nov. 18 with injuries consistent with an animal attack inside the family’s Oklahoma City home.
- An affidavit states the same dog mauled her on Nov. 6, severing an ear, and that the child was locked in her bedroom with the animal the night she died.
- Oklahoma City Animal Welfare removed four dogs from the home, three described by prosecutors as malnourished, along with two bearded dragons.
- Lambert and McGuire remain jailed on $1 million bond and face potential life sentences, as prosecutors allege they maliciously failed to protect their child and Oklahoma Human Services issues a general statement of grief under public criticism.