5/12/14 - A request for more time has once again delayed a hearing for a former Fowlerville woman charged in Florida with the death of her infant daughter. 23-year-old Kylee Jean Copeland had been set for a pre-trial hearing last week in Polk County Circuit Court on a manslaughter charge for the death of her 3-month-old daughter Nataley Jade Agee. But court records indicate it has been adjourned until June 24th. Thatâs the second adjournment in the case this year. Copelandâs daughter was found dead in a crib at her home in Lakeland, Florida in September, 2011. An autopsy determined the cause of the death was blunt force trauma to the head and that the child had been dead for at least eight hours. After that timeline contradicted Copelandâs initial account that she fed her daughter that morning and put her back in the crib, she changed her story and told authorities that she dropped her baby in the living room and her head struck the coach, before bouncing to the floor. She reportedly said she lied because she didnât want to lose her other children or go to jail. This is not the first incident of child neglect Copeland has been involved in. She and Trevor Agee, the father of her three children, were pulled over by a Michigan State Police trooper in August of 2008 on I-96 near Fowlerville. The trooper saw a baby boy sitting sideways in a car seat with duct tape over his mouth, which Copeland and Agee admitted to placing there to hold his pacifier in place. Authorities declined to press criminal charges and shortly afterwards, the pair moved to Florida to live with Agee's mother.
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