BAY CITY (AP) -- A Michigan woman says people have donated food and furniture following her release from custody in the death of her daughter.
Reports say Donna Yost spent her first night Tuesday in a new apartment. Yost says the adjustment has not been easy.
She lives rent-free in a Bay City apartment owned by her attorney and hopes to bake and sell cakes from home.
The 49-year-old woman left custody on March 20 after pleading no contest to first-degree child abuse. Yost was convicted in 2006 of giving her 7-year-old daughter, Monique, a fatal dose of antidepressant in 1999 to block a sex-abuse investigation.
She was sentenced to life, but the state appeals court later ordered a new trial, saying too much evidence for the defense was excluded at trial.
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