POLK COUNTY, Iowa - The COVID-19 pandemic is delaying the trial of the Johnston daycare worker facing charges in the death of a 17 month-old.
The trial of Trina Mazza will now take place in September of next year.
Due to the COVID pandemic, the Iowa Supreme Court ordered all jury trials had to be pushed back until at least February 1st.
Mazza is charged in the death of 17-year old Tucker Schneider.
Investigators say Schneider's autopsy determined he died of traumatic suffocation at Mazza's unlicensed home daycare in 2019.
(Photo from WHO 13)