Mom claimed she 'didn't do anything wrong' after baby died while co-sleeping

A 27-year-old parent and licensed time attraction relation successful Indiana is accused of fatally neglecting her newborn son, allegedly leaving the baby to slumber atop an big furniture with his 6-year-old sibling and aggregate pillows and blankets.

Brooklyn Davis was taken into custody earlier this period and charged with 3 counts of neglect of a dependent, each felonies, successful transportation with the September 2024 death, tribunal records show.

Officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department responded to a telephone from Community East Hospital connected Sept. 19, 2024, aft the babe was brought successful unresponsive from the family's location connected Mountain Stream Way, section Fox affiliate WXIN reported, citing a probable origin affidavit.

The unfortunate was successful cardiac apprehension and "never regained a pulse," according to a Department of Child Services study cited successful the probable origin affidavit. He was pronounced dormant astatine 3:07 a.m.

Investigators aboriginal determined the babe had been sleeping successful Davis' furniture alongside his older sibling successful what authorities described arsenic an improper co-sleeping situation.

According to the affidavit, Davis showed investigators a video of the babe sleeping look down connected the older child's chest, Cincinnati CBS and CW affiliate WKRC reported. The kid was aboriginal recovered unresponsive "in a prone presumption with his look turned to the broadside and partially covered with a blanket."

An autopsy reportedly determined the origin of decease was "sudden explained decease of an infant" with an intrinsic factor, citing that the babe had been "placed to slumber successful a queen-sized mattress being shared with a 6-year-old sibling, on with galore blankets and different miscellaneous items."

Investigators accidental Davis attempted CPR aft uncovering the babe unresponsive earlier rushing him to the hospital.

Court documents bespeak Davis had anterior engagement with the Department of Child Services and had signed a "Safe Sleep Safety Plan" successful July 2024 — conscionable weeks aft the kid was calved — acknowledging that infants should slumber successful a crib, bassinet, oregon play gait and that co-sleeping increases the hazard of suffocation.

That program besides specifically stipulated that Davis was not to usage marijuana portion caring for her children. However, she told investigators that hours earlier uncovering her lad unresponsive, she had gone upstairs to spell fume marijuana, leaving him and his sibling unsocial successful the bed.

Authorities besides said that Davis operated a state-licensed time attraction and reportedly had "extensive grooming connected kid attraction and harmless sleeping environments," according to the affidavit.

Interviews with different children successful the location allegedly indicated that co-sleeping with the babe happened frequently.

"Due to Brooklyn [Davis'] actions and disregarding the information program and her training, DCS removed her 2 remaining children from her home," the affidavit states.

Investigators said they attempted to travel up with Davis aggregate times aft archetypal interviews.

"She called maine connected February 18, 2025, and said she didn't bash thing wrong, her babe died of SIDS," a detective reportedly wrote. "Brooklyn [Davis] ne'er came successful for an further interview."

The lawsuit was formally filed successful March 2026. Davis was booked into jailhouse connected April 1 and appeared successful tribunal for an archetypal proceeding connected April 7. A bail reappraisal proceeding was scheduled for Monday.