The two people charged in the death of three-year-old Brooke Stagles will go on trial May 15th, 2017.
The girl’s father, Michael Stagles, is charged with criminally negligent homicide for failing to get his daughter to medical care after she was critically injured. Erica Bell is charged with murder and manslaughter for allegedly beating Brooke Stagles so badly she was fatally injured.
Stagles finally took his daughter to Strong Memorial Hospital several days after the beating, but she died at the hospital. Court papers say he later told police he didn’t go to authorities because he was trying to avoid trouble.