RIPLEY, W.Va. (AP) — Authorities in West Virginia say a 9-month-old sexual assault victim has died. 
 
 Jackson County Sheriff Tony Boggs said the girl died of her injuries at a hospital Wednesday. 
 
 Thirty-two-year-old Benjamin Taylor of Cottageville was charged Monday with first-degree sexual assault. Taylor is the boyfriend of the victim's mother but is not the child's father. 
 
 An additional charge is pending. 
 
 According to a criminal complaint, the baby had extensive bleeding and a body temperature of 90 degrees. The complaint says the injuries indicated a violent sexual assault, as well as shaking or striking of the face. 
 
 Taylor told deputies he took the baby to the basement of an apartment while doing laundry. He said he "blacked out" and didn't know how the baby's injuries occurred. 
 
 It's unclear whether Taylor has an attorney who could comment on the case. ||||| In a horrific turn of events, a 10-month-old girl who was allegedly sexually assaulted by her mom's boyfriend has died.Now little Emmaleigh's family is left to make funeral arrangements for a child they will remember as the "most pleasant baby in the world."The Adkins family calls alleged murderer Benjamin Taylor a monster. He has been charged in the child's death after police say he sexually assaulted her inside their family home.On Monday, Emmaleigh's mother discovered her daughter's bloody and swollen body on the basement floor and called 911, WSAZ-TV reports.The innocent baby fought for her life. On Wednesday, the child took her final breath in the arms of her distraught mother.The Jackson County Sheriff's office says it is still investigating, but so far it does not appear that the victim's siblings were harmed by Taylor.Sheriff Tony Boggs also says their mother is not accused of any wrongdoing.It's hard to explain why this has happened, says Danielle Adkins, cousin of the victim's mother."Now that she is gone, you can't help but just be angry," Adkins says.She says Benjamin Taylor swept her cousin off her feet, and says he did a lot with her cousin's children.Now, the family is left to pick up the pieces as they search for answers and meaning in this terrible tragedy."She will never go home with her brothers and sisters again," Adkins says. "She's never going to be at a family event. We are never going to know what her kids are going to look like or see her graduate high school or any of those normal life things because of this monster."
– Authorities in West Virginia say a 9-month-old sexual assault victim has died. Jackson County Sheriff Tony Boggs said the girl died of her injuries at a hospital Wednesday, the AP reports. Benjamin Taylor of Cottageville was charged Monday with first-degree sexual assault; an additional charge is pending. Taylor is the boyfriend of the victim's mother but is not the child's father. According to a criminal complaint, the baby, IDed by WSAZ as Emmaleigh Barringer, had extensive bleeding and a body temperature of 90 degrees. The complaint says the injuries indicated a violent sexual assault, as well as shaking or striking of the face. Taylor, 32, told deputies he took the baby to the basement of an apartment while doing laundry. He said he "blacked out" and didn't know how the baby's injuries occurred. Boggs says the mother hasn't been accused of being involved with the crime, and Emmaleigh's siblings appear to be unharmed, per WSAZ. "The only way justice is going to be served is if [Taylor] feels every ounce of pain that he caused her," a cousin of the baby's mother says, with KTRK adding the family is calling Taylor a monster. It's unclear whether Taylor has an attorney who could comment on the case.