The case against a woman accusing of killing her infant daughter by striking her head against the top of a clothes dryer has gone to a jury in Wyandotte County.

The defendant is Stephanie Thomas of Bonner Springs. She's charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Avalon. The child was ten weeks old when she died in October 2003.

In a statement to police, Thomas admitted killing the colicky baby. But on the witness stand yesterday she said she had unintentionally overdosed on a sedative and has no memory of what happened. She said her statement was just speculation in which she just agreed with a detective's suggestion.

The prosecutor said Thomas gave the baby an extremely high level of a drug in an effort to get her to sleep, and when that didn't work she beat her head against the dryer three times and put her in a bassinet. The next morning the child was dead.