Oaklee Snow: Indiana Mother Sentenced After Police Find Tot Girl Dead in Dresser
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The sentencing in the death of 1-year-old Oaklee Snow has been handed down by Indiana courts.

According to a Fox59 report on Friday, Madison Marshall, the mother of Oaklee, was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Marshall entered a plea agreement that involved her testifying against Roan Waters and pleading guilty to neglect of a dependent causing death.

At the time of Oaklee’s death, Marshall’s boyfriend, Roan Waters, was sentenced to 45 years in prison. He admitted guilt to charges of neglect of a dependent leading to death and two other neglect charges.

As CrimeOnline had previously reported, Marshall and Waters were charged with kidnapping Oaklee and her baby brother from their father’s residence in Oklahoma on January 19, 2023. They traveled to Indiana, where Waters has relatives, and left the infant boy at a drug house in Indianapolis.

Madison Marshall, left, and Roan Waters/police handouts

Waters’ family found the infant boy and reported the case to the Department of Child Services, but Oaklee’s whereabouts remained unknown until April, after Marshall was arrested in North Carolina. Once extradited to Indiana, she reportedly led investigators to an abandoned house in Morgan County, where the girl’s badly decomposed body was found in a dresser drawer.

Court documents state Oaklee died on February 9, 2023, after she woke her mother and Waters by crying because she was hungry. Marshall said Waters threw the girl on the floor and shouted at her. Later, she said, Waters called for her, and she found him holding Oaklee as the girl struggled to breathe. Marshall said she tried to call 911, but Waters slapped the phone from her hand.

She said he then wrapped Oaklee in a blanket, and the couple left the drug house, driving to the abandoned house where Waters left the body.

“The fact that two adults who had the care of this child would let these things happen to her and do these things to her is just terrifying. And that’s why they’re going to the Department of Corrections,”  Dan Chicchini, chief trial deputy at the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office, said following the sentencing.

“That’s why that 45-year number is important; it’s because it is as serious a crime as it gets. They were entrusted with the care of a 2-year-old baby and failed miserably, and it resulted in her death.”

[Feature Photo: Oaklee Snow/Facebook]

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