Staff Reports
Parents facing charges in connection with the death of their 13-month-old daughter will be back in Niagara County Court on Friday.
Nicholas Doxey and Sara Nigro, both 23, will appear before Judge Matthew Murphy, each facing a charge of criminally negligent homicide. Both were indicted in June after a 15-month investigation into the death of Sierra Doxey, who was pronounced dead March 4, 2008.
Emergency crews were called to the couple’s Garden Street apartment during the afternoon of March 4 for a report of a medical emergency involving a child. They reportedly found Sierra was not breathing. The child was transported to Eastern Niagara Hospital-Lockport, where she was pronounced dead.
Police have determined Sierra died of “acute opiate poisoning” and had high levels of morphine in her system.
Doxey’s attorney, Earl Key, has said both Doxey and Nigro believed the child died of pneumonia.
