A woman arrested for the death of her baby daughter was in court Wednesday, accused of rubbing drugs on her baby daughter’s gums.

Kimberly Nelligan, 33, pleaded not guilty to endangering the welfare of a child and possession of a scheduled drug.

Police said they found her the 1-year-old girl unresponsive at the woman’s home in October of last year. The child died at a hospital.

The medical examiner ruled being poisoned by fentanyl likely caused it.

The baby’s father told police Nelligan rubbed drug residue on the inside of the baby’s gums to help her sleep.

He also told police Nelligan had been doing this for about two months before the baby’s death.

 

Nelligan was allowed bail but is banned from unsupervised contact with minors and can’t contact the baby’s father.

She’s due back in court in November.