Lisa Figueroa was at a liquor store when the infant niece she was supposed to be watching died in her bed, the Hartford Courant reports today. Figueroa was arrested this week and arraigned in on Tuesday.
She is accused of leaving her 10-month old niece and the girl's 2-year-old sister at home alone while she went out to buy alcohol at a local liquore store. The baby, the warrant states, got trapped between the mattress and the headboard of the bed and .
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