File photo of the Penobscot River and the Milford Dam in Milford, Maine, near where a 3-year-old Havertown girl was found dead in a vehicle. Read more Robert F. Bukaty / AP

by Robert Moran Published Aug. 13, 2025, 8:27 p.m. ET

The mother of the Havertown woman charged in Maine with manslaughter in the death of her 3-year-old daughter, who was left in a hot car for hours on Saturday, told an investigator that her daughter had been hallucinating and hearing voices telling her what to do, according to the affidavit of probable cause filed in the case.

Kelly Brown’s mother told the investigator that her daughter had been posting “disturbing” videos to Facebook that displayed behavior that had changed significantly from how she acted less than a month earlier, the affidavit said.

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