Army Mom Beat 2-Year-Old Daughter to Death Before Claiming She Choked on a Banana

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Army Mom Beat 2-Year-Old Daughter to Death Before Claiming She Choked on a Banana


Jeanie Kassandra Ditty, 33, has been found guilty of killing her two-year-old daughter, Macy Grace Ditty, in North Carolina.



Macy died in December 2015 after suffering severe injuries. An autopsy found that she had sustained at least 40 separate blows, while a CT scan revealed non-survivable brain injuries suffered within the previous 8 to 24 hours. During that period, Ditty was the child's sole caregiver with access to her.


Paramedics initially rushed Macy to Cape Fear Valley Regional Medical Center after finding her unresponsive and covered in bruises. She was later transferred to UNC-Chapel Hill's hospital because of the seriousness of her injuries. She died within days.



At first, Ditty's then-boyfriend, Zachary Earl Keefer, was charged in connection with the death. However, the charges were dismissed in November 2020 after investigators determined he was not present when Macy was killed.


A month after her daughter's death, Ditty contacted Pennsylvania photographer Sunny Jo and requested "after life" photographs of herself and Macy. Ditty told the photographer that the child had died after choking on a banana, which supposedly caused seizures and deprived her brain of oxygen.


The photographer reported what Ditty had told her to investigators. By March 2016, Macy's death had been ruled a homicide.


The case first went to trial in 2020 but ended with a hung jury. It returned to court again this month.


At the retrial, a state forensic pathologist testified that Macy suffered at least 40 physical blows. Jurors found Ditty guilty after deliberating for less than three hours.


Ditty will spend the rest of her life in prison.

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