Pender Memorial Hospital

Prosecutors had walked jurors through the early morning hours of November 13th in 2017.

It included the frantic drive to Pender Memorial Hospital, the ligature marks around Peyton Field's neck, also the report of the genital injuries that were documented by the sexual assault nurse, then the medical examiner's finding of strangulation, Then they walked through the red earbuds and the DNA and that that was the connection between David and Peyton.

Well, the defense had some things that they hammered at.

They hammered at the lack of usable male DNA on the sexual assault kit.

Now, this is a case we're talking goes back nine years ago, but it's now just finally going to trial.

So this goes back all the way to November 13th, 2017, when medical staff at Pender Memorial Hospital in North Carolina contacted the sheriff's office around 6:00 in the morning about a five-year-old little girl who had been brought into the emergency room in critical condition.

Her name was Peyton Fields, and according to police records, she'd been sexually assaulted and strangled.

Her injuries were so bad that when she first got to the hospital, she was completely limp and had no vital signs, meaning doctors couldn't find a measurable heartbeat, and she wasn't breathing on her own.

Next, the murder trial of David Wesley Prevatt continues today in, uh, Pender County, North Carolina, nearly nine years after the death of his five-year-old niece Peyton Fields.

Now Previtt, now 27, was 19, uh, when he carried an unconscious Peyton into the Pender Memorial Hospital early back in November of 2017.

She was later transferred to the New Hanover Medical Center and died three days later.

Prosecutors have charged Previtt with first-degree murder, statutory rape of a child by an adult, and statutory sexual offense with a child by an adult.

It was back on November 13th, 2017.

Little five-year-old Payton Fields was brought in by family members to the Pender Memorial Hospital.

She was in critical condition.

Now, according to reports, she arrived without any vital signs, and emergency personnel almost immediately noticed what appeared to be ligature marks around her neck, a sign of strangulation.

Well, Amanda, we know it took more than six months since Payton had died, the results confirming what investigators initially believed, the medical examiner's office finding that Payton died because she was strangled.

Tuesday, the medical examiner's office released its full report on Payton Fields' body.

Fields died November 16th, three days after her family took the unresponsive five-year-old to Pender Memorial Hospital, telling the staff she had been fighting a respiratory issue for days.

But the medical examiner noted something else, a healing ligature mark around her neck, meaning an object had been wrapped around it.

It was back on November 13th, 2017.

Little five-year-old Payton Fields was brought in by family members to the Pender Memorial Hospital.

She was in critical condition.

Now, according to reports, she arrived without any vital signs, and emergency personnel almost immediately noticed what appeared to be ligature marks around her neck, a sign of strangulation.

Well, Amanda, we know it took more than six months since Payton had died, the results confirming what investigators initially believed, the medical examiner's office finding that Payton died because she was strangled.

Tuesday, the medical examiner's office released its full report on Payton Fields' body.

Fields died November 16th, three days after her family took the unresponsive five-year-old to Pender Memorial Hospital, telling the staff she'd been fighting a respiratory issue for days.

But the medical examiner noted something else, a healing ligature mark around her neck, meaning an object had been wrapped around it.