Texas teen Kara Walker claims innocence after arrest in eight-year-old brother’s alleged torture death

A Texas teenager charged in connection with the death of her younger brother is pushing back, claiming she’s been wrongly accused.

The Harris County Sheriff’s Office announced that Kara Walker, 17, was arrested on August 27 and charged with injury to a child, the same charge her boyfriend, 18-year-old Noah Stallings, faced five months earlier.

Both are accused of torturing Walker’s brother, Charles, who died in February.

Speaking from jail in an interview with Houston’s KPRC 2, Ms Walker denied having any involvement.

“I’m being falsely charged. I wouldn’t do anything to harm my brother,” she said, explaining that she was stunned when officers informed her she was under arrest.

Ms Walker told the outlet that investigators found a note on her phone she insists was not hers.

“They found a note in my phone that I didn’t write, and because it was in my phone, they’re saying that I wrote it,” she said.

“And they found text messages about me saying that I had made my brother stand in the corner even though I didn’t make him stand in the corner.”

Court records show Kara remains behind bars on $100,000 bond. She was not charged with homicide, but prosecutors allege injury to a child.

Mr Stallings, meanwhile, was granted release in March on a $1 million bond after being charged with the same offence.

Charles Walker died on February 15, five days after Ms Walker and Mr Stallings rushed him to Baytown Methodist Hospital while he was unresponsive.

Mr Stallings reportedly told police that the boy had been hurt in a fall, but doctors alerted investigators that the injuries appeared consistent with abuse. An autopsy later determined that Charles died of blunt force trauma.

“They just compared it to a car accident. 70 to 80 miles an hour car crash (112-128km) with an unrestrained victim,” the child’s mother, Cecil Walker, told KPRC 2.

Charles’ father, Christian West, also spoke to the station, calling the ordeal “a nightmare that we can’t wake up from.” He added that he does not believe Kara could have caused the injuries herself, given her small frame.

According to court filings reviewed by multiple news outlets, Charles had allegedly been “abused and tortured over several days” before his death, during which he sustained numerous injuries, including the head trauma that ultimately killed him.

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