PARK HILLS, Mo. – "I actually still have goosebumps," was the reaction of Danielle Love when she learned that an employee at a Park Hills daycare was charged for the death of her 3-year-old cousin, Conrad Ashcraft.

On Thursday, it was announced that a St. Francois County grand jury charged Tiffany R. Hedrick with second-degree murder, abuse or neglect of a child resulting in death and armed criminal action.

On May 16, Ashcraft died at Poppy’s Playhouse 2 in Park Hills. The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education said that Conrad died after a caregiver held him down at nap time and laid him under an 18-pound weighted blanket.

Since his death, Ashcraft's family, the community and activists have called for justice, with even one nonprofit drafting legislation in his name.

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