Police found 15 Fentanyl patches in a shirt pocket and the underwear of Nichole Fritz, according to court documents.Natalie Ann Shaneyfelt told police she sat her 2-year-old daughter down on her couch “with authority” last month.
But investigators and surgeons said the little girl’s life-threatening skull fractures showed that the blows to her head had the same force as falling from a jungle gym and landing head first on the concrete below, according to court documents filed Thursday in Allen Superior Court.
Shaneyfelt took her daughter to Parkview Hospital on Feb. 12, and doctors quickly realized the girl required surgery and that she might not survive. Doctors found two head injuries – one that occurred within 24 hours of the girl being taken to the hospital and one that was about a week old, a probable cause affidavit said.
Shaneyfelt at first blamed the baby sitter and said she had no idea how the injuries occurred. Later, she admitted to being angry and said she had not meant to hurt her child, court documents said.
She was arrested Friday on two counts of battery. She was being held in lieu of $12,500 bail.
