Falls Township Woman Sentenced For Kicking Death Of Daughter, 2

FALLS TOWNSHIP, PA — A Bucks County judge has sentenced a Falls Township woman to 12 to 40 years in prison in connection with the kicking death of her 2-year-old daughter last year.

Kayla Marie Moore, 24, was arrested in 2016 and charged with criminal homicide in connection with the death of her daughter, Athena Wolfe. According to an affidavit, Falls Township police officers responded to Moore's Sweetbriar Road residence on April 24, 2016 after she reported her daughter was in cardiac arrest.

Moore later told investigators that she kicked the girl several times in the head and the torso before calling an ambulance, according to an affidavit of probable cause. An autopsy showed Athena died of blunt force trauma and the manor of death was ruled homicide, police said.

The child, who was unresponsive upon arriving at Aria Hospital, appeared "very malnourished," the affidavit said. She was then airlifted to CHOP, where she died the next day.

Officials say, based on Athena's injuries, she was a "terribly battered and injured" child.