A Mankato, Minnesota woman pleaded guilty on Monday to the death of her 16-month-old son.
28-year-old Chelsea Rae Olinger entered a guilty plea on charges of first-degree manslaughter. She was also charged with second and third-degree murder, first-degree assault and malicious punishment of a child.
Olinger was arrested in February 2020 after she brought her child to the hospital in Mankato. The boy was then transferred to Mayo Clinic in Rochester with a brain injury, compression fractures of two vertebrae, seven broken ribs, a laceration of the liver, and numerous bruises.
Jay’Lee Lawrence Olinger Williams died two days later.
Investigators say Olinger claimed her son had fallen down a flight of stairs, but doctors at the Mayo Clinic said the injuries were not consistent with a fall. but were what you would see with intentional trauma.
Olinger remains in the Blue Earth County Jail and is scheduled to be sentenced May 18.
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