Keisha Michelle Cody,27, of Fort Hall, was charged in September 2022 by way of a federal indictment with involuntary manslaughter and felony injury to a child in relation to the death of a then 7-week-old boy identified in court documents as L.P.
Court records say the boy died of malnourishment and that he was also exposed to methamphetamine before dying.
Court records state that on Dec. 10, 2019, Fort Hall police and an ambulance were dispatched to a home in Fort Hall for the report of a child who was not breathing.
Emergency medical personnel rendered life-saving measures on the boy but he was later declared dead, records say.
Another person staying at the house told officers that Cody woke up around 9 a.m. and was crying, stating that the child would not wake up, according to court records.
An autopsy showed that the boy had a “significant level of methamphetamine” in his blood and Cody during an interview with FBI agents said that she used meth around the child and otherwise exposed the child to meth, court records say.
Cody pleaded guilty to the federal felony injury to a child charge in November via a binding plea agreement with prosecutors, court records show. In exchange for pleading guilty to the injury to child charge, prosecutors agreed to dismiss the involuntary manslaughter charge she faced, according to court records.
