Toddler dies from seizures caused by head trauma!

An eastern Missouri woman was charged Monday with second-degree murder in the death of her boyfriend's 2-year-old daughter.

Codi Aston died in February 2005. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department said Melissa Minehart, 32, was watching Codi when the child suffered trauma injuries that led to seizures. Codi died a day later.

Medical staff at a hospital alerted police and child-welfare authorities after determining the seizures had been caused by trauma, STLtoday.com, the Web site for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, reported Monday.

Minehart was dating Brian Aston, Codi's father, at the time. Brian Aston and Pamela Minehart, Melissa Minehart's mother, have been charged with endangering the welfare of a child.