Mother, boyfriend charged in baby's death

SAPULPA, Okla. (AP) -- Creek County authorities have filed first-degree murder charges against a woman and her boyfriend in the beating death of the woman's 21-month-old daughter. <br><br>Tammy Renee

Tuesday, April 4th 2000, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

SAPULPA, Okla. (AP) -- Creek County authorities have filed first-degree murder charges against a woman and her boyfriend in the beating death of the woman's 21-month-old daughter.

Tammy Renee Brooks, 27, and Kurt Arnold Vomberg Jr., 30, were charged Monday in the death of Skyla Brooks. Both are being held without bail in the county Jail.

The child was pronounced dead at a Tulsa hospital on March 21, roughly 24 hours after Vomberg reportedly summoned authorities to a home west of Sapulpa.

Vomberg said the girl was choking and that he shook her "pretty hard" in an effort to revive her, authorities said.

But preliminary reports from the state medical examiner indicate the girl's brain stem was severed and that she had 19 bite marks on her body, said Creek County Assistant District Attorney Carol Iski.

The charge filed Monday alleges Tammy Brooks allowed Vomberg to use deadly force on the child.

The couple were scheduled to appear today in Creek County District Court.