Daytona Beach woman faces murder and manslaughter of child charges
A Daytona Beach woman was booked into the county jail Friday charged in the death of a child, according to jail records.
Talia Nelson, 43, was charged with first-degree felony murder, aggravated manslaughter of a child and aggravated child abuse.
According to a Daytona Beach police news release, officers were dispatched and responded to a home on Carolina Lake Drive on Jan. 1, where they found "an obviously neglected 14-year-old male."
The teenager was transported to Halifax Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Detectives began an investigation, and an autopsy was performed. The Medical Examiner determined the cause of death to be homicide.
Nelson was being held without bond. She made her first appearance Saturday morning and is scheduled to be arraigned on March. 5.
Daytona Beach Police Chief Jakari Young did not respond to an email Friday night seeking comment; neither did the department's public information office.
Nelson pleaded no contest to grand theft in a 2023 case in which she was accused of taking $700 from the purse of a customer at a McDonald's. Nelson worked at the McDonald's and the customer had forgotten the purse. Adjudication was withheld in the case.
She was adjudicated guilty of petty theft in 2020 for stealing $29 from an employee's purse while she worked as a housekeeper at Daytona Beach Inn and Suites in Daytona Beach Shores.
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Daytona Beach woman faces murder and manslaughter of child charges
