After a nearly yearlong investigation into the death of an infant in St. Lucie County, three people, including the baby’s mother, were arrested on Thursday, deputies said.<\/p>\n
Nicole Maxwell, 27, Robert Maxwell, 61, and Vikki Koon, 38, were charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child and aggravated child abuse.<\/p>\n
According to the St. Lucie Sheriff’s Office, deputies on Aug. 20, 2025, arrived at the Lawnwood Regional Medical Center after a 3-month-old child was brought to the emergency room by his grandparents.<\/p>\n
Deputies said that medical \u202fpersonnel told them that the child was pronounced dead and that the child had injuries that were consistent with possible neglect.<\/p>\n
As deputies investigated the incident, a medical examiner classified the child’s death as a homicide and said the child’s cause of death was due to dehydration and malnutrition.<\/p>\n
Nicole, who is the child’s mother, Robert, the child’s grandmother, and Koon, Robert’s girlfriend, were then arrested.<\/p>\n
Their bonds were set at $1.5 million each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a nearly yearlong investigation into the death of an infant in St. Lucie County, three people, including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-353652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}