A Toddler’s Body Was Found in a Dresser 2 Years Ago — and Her Mom Just Admitted to What She Did

• Madison Marshall pleaded guilty on May 1 to neglect of a dependent resulting in death and neglect of a dependent, court records show
• Marshall’s daughter, Oaklee Snow, was reported missing in January 2023 and found dead the next month in a dresser at an abandoned home in Morgan County, Ind.
• As part of her plea agreement, Marshall will testify against her ex-boyfriend Roan Waters, whom she claims carried out the killing

The mother of an Indiana toddler found dead in a dresser two years ago has pleaded guilty to two charges related to her daughter’s death.

On Thursday, May 1, Madison Marshall pleaded guilty to one count of neglect of a dependent resulting in death and one count of neglect of a dependent, according to court records reviewed by PEOPLE. 

Marshall could face 25 years in prison for the former charge and two years for the latter, Fox 23 reports. Other neglect charges are expected to be dropped at sentencing.

As part of her plea agreement, which was obtained by Fox 23, as well as WRTV and WTHR, Marshall will testify against her co-defendant and ex-boyfriend Roan Waters. Waters will stand trial in June on charges of murder, neglect of a dependent resulting in death, neglect of a dependent and battery, reports say.

Marshall previously claimed to authorities that Waters killed her daughter, 1-year-old Oaklee Snow, in February 2023 and hid her body in a dresser drawer in an abandoned home in Morgantown, Ind., according to court documents obtained by KOCO 5.

According to WRTV, authorities said Marshall also previously admitted to investigators that Waters regularly abused the toddler for minor things.

Oaklee was last seen on Feb. 9, 2023, being motionlessly carried out of what witnesses described as a “crack house” by her mother in Indianapolis, PEOPLE previously reported, citing the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office.

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“They described that she was either asleep or unconscious. She wasn’t moving,” J.T. Palmer of the sheriff’s office said at the time. “She was wrapped in a blanket and the mother made the comment, ‘I got to get her to the hospital. She’s been hurt.'”

However, Palmer said that authorities “know that [Oaklee] did not make it to the hospital that night.”

Prior to that, on or about Jan. 19, 2023, Marshall left her home in Cromwell, Okla., with Oaklee and her 7-month-old son Coleton, along with her ex-boyfriend, 25-year-old Roan Waters, according to Palmer.

Oaklee’s biological father had reported his daughter and son missing after telling authorities that “Marshall and Waters took his children from his home and were allegedly heading to Indianapolis,” prosecutors said.

Palmer said that Coleton was allegedly abandoned on the couch of the house in Indianapolis. Someone at the house called authorities, and Coleton was reunited with his father.

The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office announced in March 2023 that multiple charges had been filed against Marshall and Waters in connection with Oaklee’s death.

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