The father of a woman arrested after her infant daughter died with methamphetamine in her bloodstream told a court Wednesday he never saw any evidence his daughter was using drugs at the time of the girl’s death.

“Not while I was around,” Lou Muise testified at the trial of his daughter Alison Muise. “I didn’t see liquor or beer in the house. I didn’t see her being high, drunk or anything.”

Alison Muise, 42, is on trial charged with one count of failing to provide the necessaries of life.

Three-month-old Layla Mattern-Muise was rushed to hospital Feb. 2, 2022, after Muise and the child’s father Christopher Mattern awoke to find her not breathing. She was pronounced dead that day.

Mattern pleaded guilty to failing to provide necessaries of life and was sentenced in August to 21 months o

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