Girl, 11, Dies After Being Hit by Mother: Police

The mother of an 11-year-old girl has been charged with murder after the young girl died days after her mother allegedly hit her in the stomach.

Police said Waukegan, Illinois, fire officials responded to a home in the 300 block of Gillett Avenue just after 9 p.m. Friday for an unresponsive 11-year-old girl.

The girl, identified as Raasania Coley, was transported to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead, police said.

The Lake County Coroner’s office said an autopsy determined Coley had a torn stomach as the result of blunt force trauma and those injuries led to her death.

The girl’s mother, Nicholette Lawrence, allegedly told police she struck the girl in the stomach earlier that week.

Lawrence was charged with first-degree murder and was order held at the Lake County Jail on $5 million bail.

Lawrence has two other children that have been placed with relatives, police said. There were no allegations of abuse to the other children.

Lawrence is next scheduled to appear in court Sept. 30.

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