The father of a woman charged after her three-month-old daughter died with methamphetamine in her bloodstream acknowledged in court Wednesday that his granddaughter wasn't protected from harm before her death.

Alison Muise, 42, is charged with failing to provide the necessaries of life after her unresponsive baby, Layla Mattern-Muise, was rushed to hospital and died in February 2022.

Muise's judge-alone trial before Manitoba provincial court Judge Michelle Bright began in September and continued Wednesday.

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A Winnipeg police officer testified in September that Muise's home wasn't safe for children, telling court garbage and drug paraphernalia were scattered around the home, and a window was left open on a frigid February day.

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