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Mom whose baby died on changing table gets probation

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August 4th, 2017 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – A Des Moines mother whose baby daughter died on a changing table has been given five years of probation. On Thursday a judge also suspended a 10-year prison sentence for Laci Taylor. She’d pleaded guilty to felony neglect of a dependent person after prosecutors lowered the charge.

Court records say Taylor left the 3-month-old unattended on the table on Sept. 18 last year. The girl’s airway was cut off when she rolled over, and her neck was compressed against a table ledge.