JUSTICE for KAIRISSA MARK

Dr. Deborah Mark, a pediatrician, of Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, is charged with first degree murder and multiple counts of child abuse in connection to the death of her four-year-old daughter, Kairissa Mark, in July 2010. Steven Mark is charged with multiple counts of child abuse. Kairissa was adopted from China. Less than 90 days after the Marks adopted her, she was dead. Kairissa had severe bruising and Mt. Juliet police said the case of child abuse was one of the worst they had seen.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Steven Mark put Kairissa in a box in the garage with the lights out to punish her

The defense attorney for Deborah Wen-Yee Mark, a former pediatrician charged with murdering her 4-year-old daughter, tried to show jurors that the mother was not the primary caregiver and that the stay-at-home father disciplined the child, according to The Tennessean.

Former Wilson County sheriff’s detective Brian Harbaugh testified today that Steven Mark told investigators that he would swing his 4-year-old daughter in the air to scare her and sometimes put her in a box in the garage with the lights out to punish her.