APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) – The woman charged in connection with the 2015 death of her child will stand trial.
According to court records, Keshia Waupoose was ordered to stand trial on Friday during a hearing where there was testimony. An arraignment date was not immediately available.
Waupoose is charged with second-degree reckless homicide in the August 27, 2015, death of her 3-month-old daughter. She was arrested and charged last month.
Investigators say the child’s death happened following a night of drinking at Waupoose’s then-Story Street home.
“People were intoxicated and at some point during the night the 26-year-old mother made a decision that was a tragedy really,” Appleton Police Sgt. David Lund said.
Lund says that decision was to lay in a makeshift bed where her daughter was sleeping. At some point in the night, Lund says Waupoose laid on the child.
The autopsy listed the girl’s cause of death as asphyxia.
