(Sheldon, IA) — Three northwest Iowans are charged in connection with the death of a five-month-old child last summer in Sheldon.
Police arrested 20-year-old Lawrence Ruotolo and 21-year-old Brittanee Baker Thursday for child endangement in the death of their daughter. Forty-nine-year-old Stacie Hurlburt was arrested Friday for being an accessory after the fact.
The complaint says the child was found unresponsive last July and later died in a Sioux Falls, South Dakota hospital.
Investigators say all three suspects fabricated a story about the child being injured by a lamp that was knocked over by their cats.
The preliminary court hearing for Ruotolo is April 5th in O’Brien County.
