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The former operator of a Roy child care facility has been ordered to stand trial in connection with the death of a child left with her last year.
Tisha Lynn Morley, 34, has pleaded not guilty in Ogden's 2nd District Court to one count of first-degree felony child abuse homicide.
Following a preliminary hearing on Thursday, Judge Scott Hadley found probable cause to order a bindover.
An eight-day trial is set to begin Jan. 20, 2016.
Roy police spokesman Bryce Weir has said that on Feb. 19, 2014, the father of 8-month-old Lincoln Penland went to pick up the baby, along with the child's 3-year-old brother, at the now-defunct Tots & Tykes Day Care.
He found the baby cold and unresponsive.
The father took the boy to a local emergency room where doctors allegedly discovered the infant had suffered a head injury. The child, who was flown to Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City, died on Feb. 28.
"The victim suffered a skull fracture and trauma to the brain from shaking and impact-inflicted trauma. The trauma was classified as non-accidental," Weir has said. "The medical examiner ruled the manner of death as a homicide with the cause of injury being blunt force injury of the head."