A woman is facing charges following the death of her three-month-old daughter in northern Manitoba.
RCMP in Thompson say officers who were called to a home on Sunday found the infant in distress.
Emergency personnel tried to provide medical care and transported the baby to hospital, where she died.
Police say a one-year-old boy found in the home was taken to hospital as a precaution.
Julienne Towers, who is 22, is charged with criminal negligence causing death, failure to provide the necessaries of life and two counts of abandoning a child.
Towers is in custody and is to appear in Thompson provincial court on Thursday.
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