Long Beach Mom Charged with Murder of 10-Month-Old

A Long Beach woman is set to be arraigned next month on a murder charge stemming from her 10-month-old daughter's methadone ingestion death.

Charissa Ranee Bailey, 28, is due to appear at the Long Beach courthouse April 9 in connection with her daughter's death last April, according to Long Beach police.

The Los Angeles County coroner's office determined after an 11-month investigation that the girl died from methadone ingestion, police said. The coroner's office had ruled out Sudden Infant Death Syndrome as the cause of the baby's death, police said.

Long Beach authorities were dispatched on April 24, 2013, to a motel in the 600 block of West Pacific Coast Highway on a report of a baby in full cardiac arrest. The child was taken to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Bailey was arrested last Friday by Long Beach police and was being held in lieu of $1 million bail.

--City News Service