WYOMING, MI -- A 23-year-old woman whose infant son died from what police say was severe neglect told detectives she was "just too busy" to feed and care for the child.

Wyoming police Detective Robert Meredith testified about his interview with Lovily Johnson during a probable cause hearing Wednesday, Feb. 21 in Wyoming District Court.

"Her words were this, 'I was just too busy,'" Meredith said.

Following Wednesday's hearing, a judge ordered Johnson to stand trial on charges of felony murder and first-degree child abuse.

Key testimony came from Kent County forensic pathologist Dr. Stephen Cohle, who said Noah Johnson was malnourished and dehydrated when Johnson brought his deceased body into DeVos Children's Hospital in July. The baby already was in stages of decomposition.

Lovily Johnson

Testimony and court records show that Lovily Johnson left 6-month-old Noah in a car seat for more than two days in an apartment where the temperature reached 90 degrees. He was left alone for much of the time.

According to Johnson's statement to the detective, she gave her baby a bottle later Monday, July 19. She had found him "gasping" about that time. She slept downstairs where it was cooler in her apartment in the 2600 block of McKee Avenue SW.

The following day, she did not check on Noah at all.

"She doesn't check on him, doesn't hear him crying, doesn't feed him," Meredith said.

Johnson told the detective that it was later Tuesday that she knew something was wrong.

"She says 'I felt something was wrong,'" Meredith said.

Still, she left the apartment, smoked marijuana with another person and came back at 5 a.m. Wednesday and passed out on the couch. She left the apartment again that morning to go to a grocery store, gas station and bank before coming home and finally checking on Noah and finding him unresponsive.

She called Harry Woods, a man she knew as a father figure, for a ride to the hospital.

Woods testified that Johnson asked him for a ride to an appointment in the early afternoon of Wednesday, July 21, but she never mentioned on the phone that her son wasn't breathing and she acted normal.

Woods said she also did not seem rushed when she brought the baby of the apartment in a covered car seat. But it was then she told him the baby wasn't breathing.

Johnson told Woods she thought it would be faster to get a ride from him than call an ambulance.

in Johnson's interview with the detective, they talked about her being a single mother.

She told Meredith she felt "stressed to the edge."