29-year-old Chelsea Andersh of Wager, S.D., has been convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter and sentenced to four years of probation.
Andersh was indicted by a federal grand jury in March of 2022. She pleaded guilty on May 31, 2023.
The conviction stemmed from an incident on September 11, 2021, when Andersh, after smoking meth and marijuana, gave her five-month old son a bottle and put him back in the bed with her.
Later that day, the baby was discovered on his side, his face into Andersh’s body, under her arm, deceased.
The autopsy revealed that the cause of death was “asphyxia due to smothering due to bed sharing with mother.”