CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A Taylor County woman was charged with manslaughter after her 6-month-old daughter was found dead in her home Saturday.

The Campbellsville Police Department said Haley Fisher, 24, is charged with manslaughter, two counts of wanton endangerment, three counts of first-degree criminal abuse of a child and possession of drug paraphernalia after an investigation at her home by police officers and representatives of Child Protective Services.

According to her arrest citation, officers responded around 10:30 p.m. Friday to Fisher's home on Anna Court in Campbellsville on the report of a dead 6-month-old girl. 

Fisher told police investigations that a man came to her apartment Friday night and brought meth, which she smoked in her bedroom around 9:30 p.m. with the door open and all three children in the home. Thirty minutes later, she told police, she found the baby unresponsive. 

Campbellsville Police Chief Shannon Wilson told WDRB Wednesday that a family friend called police.

"This is really hard, this case is, for everyone involved," Wilson said. "... This type of thing should not have happened."

In conjunction with the coroner's office, police determined that the child had been "neglected and malnourished." Police said the child "appeared dehydrated and pale, was clothed in two, one-piece jumpers, wrapped in a blanket with a cradle cap, a space heater on and the door closed."

The temperature of the child's room, EMS told police, was "approximately 85 degrees."

Fisher told police she hadn't taken the girl to the doctor since she was born and that the girl had been losing weight since Thanksgiving. Police said Fisher told them that she knew something was wrong but didn't have a car and had no way to get the girl to the hospital. When asked how she got groceries, Fisher told police her friends would take her.

"Ms Fisher had ample resources to get her child medical attention but refused to do so," police wrote.

A CPS agent followed police and removed the other two children in the house — 1-year-old and 3-year-old boys — and sent them to a nearby hospital for a checkup. The 1-year-old tested positive for methamphetamine Sunday, police said.

She later told police she uses meth three or four times per week and showed police a small safe on the kitchen table that held "numerous items of drug paraphernalia including pipes, grinders and scales." According to the arrest citation, Fisher told police the residue on the scales would test positive for meth.

Police said Fisher had no answer to the question as to how she could regularly obtain meth but not get her child medical attention for more than two months.

Wilson was arraigned Wednesday and is expected back in court Feb. 14. She's being held in the Taylor County Detention Center on a $500,000 bond.

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