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Cook trial: Guilty on all charges
DAYTON — Kimberly Cook, accused of abusing her two half-siblings, killing one of them, was convicted of all indicted counts Thursday, Oct. 1.
The jury deliberated for about 90 minutes before finding Cook guilty of two counts of murder, two counts of child endangering and one count of felonious assault. Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Mary Wiseman set sentencing for Oct. 8.
Hope Cook, 3, died July 20, 2008 at Children’s Medical Center. Kimberly Cook was the legal guardian for both Hope and her 6-year-old brother. They were living at the family’s mobile home at Voyager Mobile Home Park, off U.S. 35, in Trotwood.
Amy Cook Wolfe, who is a half-sister of Kimberly Cook as well as Hope and her brother, said the verdict was just, but that it was difficult to sit through the trial, particularly during the graphic testimony and photographs of Hope’s injuries.
“I don’t want to remember her like that,” Wolfe said, adding that she preferred to remember Hope as “sweet, adorable, innocent.”
The jury got the case about 3:10 p.m., after nearly two hours of closing arguments from attorneys. The trial started Monday, and testimony finished on Wednesday.
Kimberly Cook was not charged with purposeful murder. Both murder counts stem from a “proximate result” of committing felonious assault and child endangering. Those four charges dealt with Hope’s injuries. The other child endangering charge dealt with the brother’s injuries.
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