BROWNSVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky mother has pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges in the death of her toddler son.
Alexandra Richardson, 28, made her first appearance Tuesday in front of an Edmonson County judge, who entered the plea on her behalf and assigned her a public defender, the Daily News reported.
An arrest warrant says Richardson was intoxicated last week when she drove around a “Road Closed” sign and into a flooded creek with two children in her vehicle. Officials say the vehicle sank and that Richardson made it out of the water with her 7-year-old son but lost track of his 1-year-old brother.
Emergency crews found the child and took him to a hospital, but he died the next day. His cause of death was asphyxiation due to drowning, Edmonson County Sheriff Shane Doyle said.
Authorities say after interviewing Richardson, they obtained a search warrant for her medical records, which showed she meth and marijuana in her bloodstream.
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