JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Dakota Taylor, 21, faces murder charges in the deaths of two infant boys separated by four years, with juvenile court records revealing warning signs documented years before her arrest. Dakota 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. The juvenile records are not in relation to her two boys, Caleb and Micah, but for her two baby girls she had prior to the passing of both Caleb and Micah. Records obtained by 12 On Your Side show the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services received a report of child abuse and neglect in fall 2020 involving Dakota and her two baby daughters. In an affidavit filed by DFCS to the court, the report alleges Dakota made threats on Twitter and via text to kill her girls. At that time, she was 23 weeks pregnant wi
