The parents of 3-year-old Reena Mae Williams have been charged with felony child neglect in the accidental drowning death of the girl in northwestern Wisconsin in August.

A North Chisago Lakes Township woman was acquitted Thursday night in the death of 8-month-old child at her unlicensed home day care last year. Salli D. Schultz, 43, was found not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of Brooke Kowarsch, of Lindstrom. Defense attorney Earl Gray said Friday that authorities rushed to judgment in filing homicide charges.

A Farmington day care's provider's license has been suspended by Minnesota regulators following the death of a 3-month-old infant in her care on Tuesday. The death was the eighth in an in-home day care this year.

The Wisconsin parents charged Friday with neglect after their 3-year-old daughter last month wandered into a canal near their northwestern Wisconsin home and drowned have surrendered to police.

The Star Tribune reports 29-year-old Toni Medrano took her own life last week in St. Paul Park. The Cottage Grove woman was facing manslaughter charges in the death of her 3-week-old son last November. Last month, HLN talk show host Nancy Grace ridiculed Medrano on national TV after police accused her of drinking a fifth of vodka and falling asleep on top of her newborn baby.