JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ga. — A 21-year-old mother is facing murder charges in the deaths of her two infant sons, raising questions about how she maintained access to the children despite red flags from family members and Georgia’s Division of Family & Children Services.

Dakota Taylor is charged with two counts each of malice murder, felony murder and cruelty to children in the first degree in the deaths of 7-month-old Micah Taylor and 8-month-old Caleb Taylor.

Micah died Sept. 13, 2021, while in Dakota’s care at Little Debbie’s 2nd Chance Homes, a group home for teenage mothers in DeKalb County. More than four years later, 8-month-old Caleb died Jan. 8, 2025, after Dakota brought him to a relative’s home in Jefferson County.

“I was crushed, there’s no way to explain it,” said Laura Taylor, M

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