Soldier mother who is charged with abusing and beating her daughter to death posed for Photoshopped images with the toddler appearing as an 'angel' at her own grave

Jeanie Ditty, 23, of Spring Lake North Carolina, who has been an active soldier at Fort Bragg since 2013, has been accused of neglecting and killing Macy Grace, and faces the death penalty if convicted. 

Police were called when the youngster was taken to hospital covered in bruises and with life-threatening injuries consistent with child abuse, two days before she died on December 4, 2015. 

Exactly a month after Macy Grace's death, Ditty went to Pennsylvania photographer Sunny Jo and asked for images depicting her reading, walking and sitting with her daughter. 

Mr Jo obliged, as he first thought he was helping a grieving mother, and has completed hundreds of similar requests in the past. 

Then, when he asked Ditty how the girl died, she said the youngster had choked on a banana when she had a stomach ache. Mr Jo said he could work with it, and started taking the pictures. 

After finishing the shoot, he decided not to charge Ditty because of the tragic circumstances. But he then found out she was arrested.