A Kentucky mother has been charged with manslaughter after her 6-month-old daughter was found dead in her home.
Haley Fisher, 24, also faces two counts of wanton endangerment, three counts of first-degree criminal abuse of a child, and possession of drug paraphernalia, the Campbellsville Police Department said.
Campbellsville Police Chief Shannon Wilson told WDRB that a family friend called police and reported the dead baby Friday night. Fisher told investigators that a man came to her house that night with methamphetamine and that she smoked the drug in her bedroom around 9:30 p.m. with the door open and all three of her children at home.
About 30 minute slater, she said she found the baby unresponsive.
An arrest affidavit said baby had been “neglected and malnourished.” The infant appeared “appeared dehydrated and pale, was clothed in two one-piece jumpers, wrapped in a blanket with a cradel cap, a space heater on and the door closed.” Emergency medical personnel told police the temperature inside the baby’s room was 85 degrees.
Fisher told investigators that the baby girl had been losing weight since Thanksgiving but that she hadn’t taken her to a doctor since she was born. She told police she didn’t have a car and couldn’t get the girl to a hospital, but when detectives asked how she got groceries, she told them that friends would take her.
“Ms Fisher had ample resources to get her child medical attention but refused to do so,” the report said.
Child Protective Services took the other two children — 1- and 3-year-old boys — to a hospital for an evaluation. The younger boy tested positive for meth, police said.
Fisher later told police that she uses meth three or four times per week and said she had no answer to how she could regularly obtain drugs but could not get her daughter medical attention.
Fisher was arrested on Monday and arraigned on Wednesday, when she was ordered held on a $500,000 bond, WHAS reported. She is due back in court on February 14.
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[Featured image: Haley Fisher/Taylor County Detention Center]
