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Funeral held for 10-month-old sexual assault victim

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Friends and family members will say their final goodbyes to an infant who died after police said she was sexually assaulted and beaten.

The funeral ceremony for 10-month-old Emmaleigh Barringer is scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday in Pasadena. She will be laid to rest in Glen Burnie.

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Family friends said the child’s mother and her boyfriend, Benjamin Taylor, moved from Maryland to West Virginia this summer.

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Taylor, 34, faces murder charges after investigators said the child was raped, strangled and left to die. 

A GoFundMe page to cover funeral expenses has raised more than $40,000.

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