SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I., Oct. 27 (UPI) -- A Rhode Island woman has pleaded innocent to killing her 8-year-old daughter for refusing to take a bath.
Kimberly Fry, 37, of North Kingstown was arraigned on a second-degree murder charge in Washington County Superior Court Tuesday. Judge Edwin Gale ordered her held without bail.
Fry appeared emotional as she sat with her lawyers in court, The Providence Journal reported.
Fry allegedly strangled her daughter, Camden, in August 2009 because the girl was crying and screaming about not wanting to take a bath, police say. Camden's father, Timothy, discovered the girl's body in the morning and called 911, but she could not be saved.
According to a police detective's affidavit last year, a hospital worker told investigators she heard Fry say she sat on Camden and put her hands over her mouth to try to make her stop crying.
The Frys both volunteered at Camden's school and helped with a beautification project there. They moved to North Kingstown in 2007 from New Hampshire where Kimberly Fry had been a substitute nurse at Moultonborough Central School and leader of the Lakes Region Habitat for Humanity.
