Wisconsin Girl, 10, Charged With Homicide in Daycare Killing of Infant

A 10-year-old Wisconsin girl was charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the death of a six-month-old child, and she told investigators that she panicked after dropping the infant and tried to silence her by stomping on the girl.

The girl appeared in Chippewa County Circuit Court on Nov. 5, The Associated Press reported. A judge set her bond at $50,000.

Wisconsin state law requires that the girl initially should be held in an adult court, prosecutors told AP.

First responders were sent to a daycare in the Town of Tilden near Chippewa Falls, where they found the child unresponsive and bleeding from the head, AP reported.

“Later that afternoon the sheriff’s department received a call from medical personnel, a doctor, attending this youth and indicated that his belief was that the injuries sustained by the 6-month boy was not an accident,” Chippewa County Sheriff James Kowalczyk told WEAU-TV.

The girl, who lives with foster parents at the licensed home daycare, then “confessed to her involvement in the situation,” Kowalczyk said. Officials said she had been removed from the home of her bbiological parents and was placed in a foster home.

“She would like to return home, and given her age, that may be appropriate,” defense attorney Kirby Harless said.

In the incident, the infant “hit its head on the footstool and then the child started crying,” District Attorney Wade Newell said, according to WEAU.

The 10-year-old then “didn’t know what to do and didn’t want to get into trouble and then she proceeded to stomp on the 6-month-old’s head,” he said.

Neither the girl or the infant were identified in media reports.