Minnesota Mother Sentenced for Murder of Her 18-Month-Old Child

Champlin, MN (MinnesotaNow)- A Twin Cities are woman has been sentenced in a murder-attempted suicide case involving the death of toddler. 

Champlin Woman Gets Over 31 Years in Prison for Death of Toddler During Murder-Attempted Suicide

24-year-old Maige Elizabeth Yang was sentenced to 380 months in prison on Monday. She pleaded guilty to a charge of intentional second-degree murder last month for killing her 18-month-old child and then attempting suicide. 

The murder-attempted suicide occurred in mid-January. 

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Police responded to a report of a child not breathing and found the toddler on the floor of the living room in Yang's Champlin home.

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Responding officers attempted to administer life-saving measures but could not save the child, the complaint says. 

Toddler Given Sleeping Pills

They were also told that Yang was in distress and found her partially conscious in an upstairs bedroom, according to the court document. 

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The court document says Yang later admitted to investigators that she placed a significant amount of a sleeping medication into her daughter’s bottle and fed it to her with the intent to end the child’s life, “hoping it would make the victim pass peacefully in her sleep.”

Toddler's Grandparents Statement to Investigators

Yang’s parents provided statements to investigators and indicated that temporary custody of the child had been granted to the victim’s father following a court hearing, the complaint says. 

When they returned to the family’s home, Yang’s parents told police she took the child to an upstairs bedroom and locked the door.

Her father later went to check on them and, after discovering the door was locked, forced it open. 

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He told police he found the child on the floor with her lips turning blue. He indicated he grabbed the baby and ran downstairs, where he called 911, the complaint says.