BILLINGS — A federal investigator says a woman beat to death a 1-year-old girl on a Montana Indian reservation and threw the baby’s body into a dumpster.
Forty-two-year-old Janelle Red Dog appeared in Fort Peck Tribal Court on Friday in the death of Kenzley Olson. Court officials say she didn’t enter a plea and was returned to custody.
KTMF-TV reports Bureau of Indian Affairs investigator Ken Trottier says Red Dog confessed to punching Kenzley several times on Tuesday, killing her. She then put the girl’s body into a duffel bag and threw it in a dumpster.
Trottier says Red Dog reported Kenzley missing, prompting authorities in Montana and North Dakota to issue an alert for a kidnapped child. The relation between Red Dog and the girl is uncertain.
Red Dog’s attorney, Mary Zemyan, didn’t immediately return a telephone message from The Associated Press seeking comment.