In Minnesota, a 39-year-old mother will serve almost ten years in prison for killing her crippled 13-year-old daughter, shutting off the oxygen monitor, and letting her pass away while blacked out from alcohol.
According to court documents examined by Law&Crime, Stearns County District Court Judge Heidi E. Schultz on Monday sentenced Elise C. Nelson to 22 years (261 months) in a state prison for the 2020 murder of toddler Kylie Larson. In addition, she must make reparations totaling more than $12,000.
Nelson entered a guilty plea to one count of second-degree murder in connection with the death of her daughter last year.
Nelson is expected to spend two-thirds of his 14 1/2-year sentence in prison and one-third on supervised release under Minnesota state law. Eight days of time were credited to her.
A probable cause affidavit states that Nelson was at home by herself with the victim from June 18 to June 21 while her other child was at a family friend’s house and Nelson’s husband, the victim’s stepfather, went fishing.
According to the authorities, Larson’s pulse and oxygen levels were stable for two days before declining. Police claim that although an alarm was set off, the oxygen-monitoring device’s history revealed that the alarm had been repeatedly muffled and that the alarm’s settings had been manually altered to permit the victim’s oxygen levels to continue falling without raising an alert. Nelson also repeatedly shut down the equipment.
According to the police, on the morning of June 21, 2020, the family friend who was watching Nelson’s second child made multiple attempts to contact her. She went to the house after failing to reach Nelson, but the door was closed and the blinds were drawn.
Nelson contacted the family friend at 12:49 p.m., approximately an hour later, to let her know that she had just done an hour of CPR and was waiting for the police. After that, Nelson and the friend talked on the phone for almost seventeen minutes, ending at 1:07 p.m.
The affidavit then claims that at 1:09 p.m., Nelson made his initial 911 call.
On June 21, 2020, at around 1:13 p.m., police and emergency medical workers responded to a 911 call concerning a kid who was not responding at Nelson’s residence in the 1600 block of West Mill Street in Paynesville, which is approximately 85 miles northwest of Minneapolis.
First responders reported that Larson was chilly to the touch when they arrived and that they discovered her laying on the floor of the living room. The child’s back and the backs of her legs were covered in blood, according to the medical staff, which suggested that she had died some hours ago. After being taken to a nearby hospital, she was declared deceased.
Nelson’s first justifications for her daughter’s fate did not align with the timeframe and unambiguous facts.
In response to a question about what transpired, Nelson stated that she heard the victim’s alarm go off, checked the machine, and noticed that the victim’s oxygen level had fallen to 86%. Nelson then started CPR after the victim flatlined. Before dialing 911, Nelson said she spent an hour performing CPR.
But according to data from the victim’s gadget, it flatlined on June 21 at 6:43 a.m., and police weren’t notified until over six hours later. Additionally, her phone indicated that she was actively using it when she claimed to be doing cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Officers also noted that Nelson’s look did not match someone who had been administering CPR for 60 minutes.
Nelson subsequently acknowledged that she was despondent and bought a 1.75-liter bottle of vodka, which she drank until she blacked out and lost long-term memory of what had transpired.
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