8/6/14 - A trial date has been delayed for a former Fowlerville woman charged in Florida with the death of her infant daughter. 23-year-old Kylee Jean Copeland is charged in Polk County Circuit Court with manslaughter in the death of her 3-month-old daughter Nataley Jade Agee. An August 4th trial date had been set, but has been adjourned at the request of Copelandâs attorney. It is now set for a pre-trial hearing on August 12th at which time the judge will allow each side final motions before setting a new trial date. Agee was found dead in her crib in Lakeland, Florida in September, 2011. An autopsy determined the child had been dead for at least eight hours due to blunt force trauma to the head. When that contradicted Copelandâs initial account that she fed her daughter that morning and put her back in the crib, she changed her story, saying she dropped the baby, whose head struck the couch. She said she lied because she didnât want to lose her other children. This is not the first incident of child neglect for Copeland. She and Trevor Agee, the father of her three children, were pulled over by a Michigan State Police trooper in 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 charges and shortly afterwards, the pair moved to Florida to live with Agee's mother. (JM)
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