A woman is charged for the 2022 death of her 10-month-old daughter

A woman is charged for the 2022 death of her 10-month-old daughter, according to Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost.

On December 19, 2025, the Mason County Sheriff’s Office and West Virginia State Police arrested 27-year-old Daisha Somers on a 10-county felony indictment out of Hocking County.

On November 23, 2022, Somers’ daughter, 10-month-old Ka’myla, passed three days after she was hospitalized with severe head trauma.

Somers and her boyfriend, Jerry K. Johnson IV, were charged with endangering children after they told Hocking County deputies that Ka’myla fell out of her toddler bed at their Logan, Ohio home. However, they did not get her medical attention until hours later.

Investigators were skeptical of Somers’ and Johnson’s story, considering her injuries.

Ka’myla had extensive injuries inconsistent with the incident her mother described, including severe bruising to her head and face, multiple skull fractures, retinal hemorrhages, blood in her urine, multiple strokes and cardiac arrest. She was put on life support before she passed.

The coroner’s report by the Franklin County Forensic Science Center exposed more in the circumstances surrounding Ka’myla’s death. The report attributed her death to “complications of closed head injury” caused by another person or persons.

The cause of death: “homicide.”

Following years of investigation by the Hocking County Sheriff’s Office and Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s (BCI) Special Victims Unit, a Hocking County grand jury on Wednesday indicted Somers on 10 felonies, according to Yost. Somers is charged with two counts of murder (unclassified felony), one count of involuntary manslaughter (F1), one count of felonious assault (F2), one count of corrupting another with drugs (F2), four counts of endangering children (F2, F3, F4, F4), and one count of aggravated possession of drugs (F5).

Somers was taken into custody by law enforcement near Point Pleasant, West Virginia. She is currently held in the Western Regional Jail in Barboursville.

Somers has faced more child endangerment charges before the death of Ka’myla.

A case against Somers from 2020 was dismissed without prejudice for future indictment.

In another case where Somers was indicted in March 2021, she was convicted of a lesser offense and placed on probation.

In connection to her daughter’s death, Somer’s child endangerment charge in 2022 was dismissed for future indictment, but she was sentenced to 18 months of prison time for a probation violation related to her arrest and related circumstances, including the presence of methamphetamines in her home.

When given a drug test, Ka’myla also tested positive for meth.

Somers began her sentence on April 6, 2023 and she was released in February 2024.