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Conrad Ashcraft, 3, suffocated to death in May after being held down under a weighted blanket by daycare director Tiffany Hedrick, authorities allege in court documents

Hedrick was indicted on Aug. 15 and charged with second-degree murder and other counts

Conrad loved swimming, pizza and the movie Toy Story , his family said

A Missouri daycare director accused of killing a nonverbal boy with autism in her care by covering him with a weighted blanket has been indicted on a charge of murder.

Tiffany Hedrick, 40, of Park Hills, was indicted by a grand jury in St. Francois County on Thursday, Aug. 14, in connection with the May 16 death of Conrad Ashcraft, 3, according to a press release from the Jefferson County Prosecutor’s Office.

Hedrick is charged with abuse or neg

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