A 23-year-old Eagleville woman is being held in the Harrison County Law Enforcement Center charged with child abuse and murder in the death of her eight-month-old baby girl.

Prosecutors charged Nicole Lauria Lister with murder in the second degree and felony abuse of a child.

 

 

Sheriff Josh Eckerson said dispatchers received a call early Saturday morning, September 8, stating the baby was not breathing. Paramedics from the North Harrison Ambulance District transported the little girl to Harrison County Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

In court documents, Sheriff Eckerson asserted that the mother admitted she had dropped the child, and later awoke to find her dead.

Eckerson says his department is conducting an ongoing investigation with the help of the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Enforcement.

Lister is being held in lieu of $250 thousand cash bond. She is scheduled for a formal court appearance September 19 before 3rd Judicial Circuit Judge Thomas R. Alley.