YATES COUNTY, NY — A Dundee woman has been charged in the death of her approximately 5-month-old baby.

Samantha W. Crane, 34, was charged Thursday with criminally negligent homicide following an investigation by the Yates County Sheriff’s Office.

Yates Deputies responded to a Dundee resident on March 20 for the report of an unresponsive child. Deputies and other first responders provided emergency care to the child, who was taken to Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hospital in Penn Yan. The child was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Crane was also charged with first-degree offering a false instrument for record, third-degree larceny and third-degree welfare fraud. According to the Sheriff’s Office, Crane provided false information to the Department of Social Services and received benefits to which he was not entitled.