By Julia Bertino
Apr 15, 2021
(LeClaire, IA) A LeClaire daycare provider faces murder charges in the February 2020 death of a five month old baby.
On Thursday, 56 year old Angela Marxen was arrested in connection to the baby s death. The LeClaire Police Department says on Feb. 5, 2020, officers arrived to an in-home daycare on Frontier Court for an “infant in distress”. According to a press release, the five month old appeared to be unresponsive with labored breathing and was transported to a local hospital where her condition continued to worse. She was then airlifted to Stead Family Children’s Hospital in Iowa City, where investigators say doctors discovered she had a fractured skull as well as a brain breed.
Police charge woman with murder of infant
LECLAIRE, Iowa (Quad-City Times) A woman facing a murder charge in relation to the 2020 death of a 5-month-old girl in LeClaire allegedly told police shortly before the baby died that she dropped the child while carrying her.
Angela Marxen, 55, of Davenport, is charged with first-degree murder, child endangerment resulting in death, and misdemeanor child endangerment, according to the LeClaire Police Department and Scott County court records.
LeClaire officers were initially called on the afternoon of Feb. 5, 2020, for a report of an infant in distress at an in-home daycare on Frontier Court, the police department said. When they arrived, they found the baby was unresponsive and had labored breathing. The child died on Feb. 9, 2020. An autopsy indicated she was killed by blunt-force injuries to her head. The investigation indicates that the injuries were not accidental.
An autopsy concluded that the cause of death was blunt force injuries to the dead, Themas wrote.
According to the criminal complaint, doctors stated the injuries the infant suffered were not the result of an accidental fall.
After a 14-month-long investigation, police determined that the infant s injuries were allegedly non-accidental.
Marxen has been charged with first-degree murder, child endangerment resulting in death, and child endangerment and is being held in Scott County Jail on no bond.
A 2019 Des Moines Register investigation found that there have been numerous child deaths reported at day cares where authorities had previously warned providers they were caring for too many children, often in unregulated facilities. Authorities have found drugs in some central Iowa day care facilities and found people convicted of felonies who were living in houses operating as in-home day cares.
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