A Leavenworth County jury has found a 24-year-old Atchison, Kansas, woman guilty in the death and endangerment of her 18-month-old daughter in 2023, according to a news release.

Following a two-day trial in Leavenworth County District Court, the jury found Liberti N. Figueroa guilty on Tuesday of two counts of aggravated endangering a child.

The jury also found Figueroa not guilty of involuntary manslaughter.

Figueroa’s daughter, Saraphina Avarose Sanchez, died Oct. 18, 2023. An autopsy determined that Saraphina died from head trauma that caused internal bleeding, according to a news release from the Leavenworth County Attorney’s Office.

According to the news release, the child endangerment charges stemmed from two separate incidents in 2023, less than a month apart.

The first in

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