Update 3/22/08 - Baby Diana’s mother, Lindsey Daigle, has now been charged with giving her surviving child, one-year-old Deanna, multiple drugs. Please scroll to the bottom of this article for details.

3/5/08 Bogalusa, LA - “This was not something that accidentally happened,” say Bogalusa police. “This was an intentional act.” And so it was, but by whom? Six-week-old baby Diana Nelson is on life support at Children’s Hospital in New Orleans after being rushed there in the early hours of March 3. She had blunt force trauma to the head and body, burns that were consistent with curling iron marks on her arms, internal bleeding, and benzodiazepines in her system. Among the people caring for her over the weekend were her mother, her grandfather, her uncle, her uncle’s fiancee, and various other relatives, friends, and alter-egos. Read more