Overview

• A Dukes County grand jury indictment moved the case to Edgartown Superior Court, where Cotton was arraigned Tuesday and entered a not-guilty plea.
• She faces counts of manslaughter and reckless endangerment, remains free on $23,800 bail with GPS monitoring and a no-contact order, and is due back Feb. 18 for a pretrial conference.
• Investigators say home security video shows the two children left strapped in Cotton’s SUV for about three hours, contradicting her initial 15-minute account.
• Cotton called 911 around 1:15 p.m.; first responders found her performing CPR before the boy was flown to Massachusetts General Hospital and died days later.
• The child’s family attended court, voiced a push for justice, and has raised nearly $275,000 to help rebuild a local playground in his memory.