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Police charge Iowa City woman in October death of infant

April 19, 2018 By Matt Kelley

Wendy Young

An Iowa City woman was arrested this morning in connection with the death of a baby last year.

Iowa City Police say 49-year-old Wendy Young, who ran a home daycare service, drank up to 12 cans of beer before watching a 7-month-old infant on October 18. Police were called to her home that morning and found the child unresponsive and later pronounced died at a hospital.

Young is charged with neglect or abandonment of a dependent person, a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

(Photo Courtesy of the Johnson County Jail)

 

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