Elmira Woman Arrested For Poisoning Toddler

By WBNG News

Elmira Woman Arrested For Poisoning Toddler

July 22, 2010 Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 4:42 PM EST

A Southern-Tier woman is charged with fatally poisoning a toddler.

24-year-old Melissa Englehardt was arrested Thursday for manslaughter.

Police say she poisoned her 21-month-old stepson with methanol, a common ingredient in anti-freeze, windshield washer fluid and dry gas.

Englehardt is in Chemung County Jail without bail.

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