The mother of Oaklee Snow takes plea, will say against the child's death against the child's friend

Indianapolis-Die mother of 2-year-old Oaklee Snow accepted a plea about the death of her daughter and agreed to testify against the co-accused Roan Waters.

Court files show that Madison Marshall has guilty to neglect a dependency that leads to death, which will lead to an 25-year prison sentence and an additional 2-year custody penalty to neglect a dependency. Other charges against them are released in the conviction.

WRTV reported for the first time about the case after Oaklee's body was discovered on April 21, 2023 in a cheat drawer on an abandoned property in Morgan County.

According to court documents, Oaklee and their younger siblings were reported to be missing by their biological father in Oklahoma in January 2023 after Marshall and Waters claimed to travel to Indianapolis.

Video | Corporate of the missing toddler Oaklee Snow found in a chest of drawers in the abandoned building, according to court documents

Mother, friend for the death of 2-year-old Oaklee Snow charged

The couple left Oaklee's 7 -month -old brother in Indianapolis shortly before Oaklee's death in Indianapolis and informed Waters' family that they had to plunge the girl after falling into the emergency room. The fears before Oaklee's state caused family members to notify the authorities.

Waters was arrested in Colorado in March 2023 for an arrest warrant for domestic abuse in November 2022, in which both allegations of abuse against Oaklee and Marshall were accused.

During police interviews, Marshall admitted that she and Waters killed Oaklee on February 9 and later revealed that water often misused the child due to minor misconduct.

On the day of Oaklee's death, Marshall described how he shouted her daughter before ran into the room to find how Oaklee can breathe. Despite the attempts to revive them in cold water, she reported that she wrapped her body into a blanket and disposed of it on the abandoned property.

In her plea agreement it says that Marshall “will give complete and truthful statements in the name of the state against the co-accused Roan Waters on behalf of the state”.