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A Waukesha woman is charged with kicking a 2-year-old so hard that it caused her death.Nicole Wagester, 31, is charged with first-degree reckless homicide in the death of the girl. She lived at the apartment with the girl's father, but she was not related to the girl.VIDEO: Woman charged with fatally kicking 2-year-oldParamedics were called to an apartment on Northwest Barstow Street for a report of a 2 1/2-year-old girl who had fallen off a bed and was not breathing. Paramedics found the girl unresponsive and with multiple injuries on her body.According to the criminal complaint, police and doctors did not believe the injuries were caused by a fall. Court documents state that Wagester, who was at the apartment when paramedics were called, was "emotionless and was not interested in rushing to get to the hospital."Wagester changed her story at the hospital, telling officers that she had fallen asleep on top of the girl, according to the complaint. Police said she then changed her story a third time when she arrived at the police station.According to the complaint, Wagester told police she lost her temper with the girl over potty training. She told police she kicked the girl in the mid-section after the girl fell off the toilet. According to the complaint, the kick was hard enough to slide her across the bathroom floor.Wagester told police she then picked up the girl and laid her down on the bed, and laid beside her with her back to the girl. She told police she could feel the girl twitching, but did not turn around to check on her.An autopsy performed by the Waukesha Medical Examiner's Office found that the girl had a severely lacerated liver. The medical examiner said the injury was consistent with blunt-force trauma to the mid-section of the body.Wagester, who was in a wheelchair for security reasons, didn't speak during the brief court hearing Tuesday.Afterward, the father of one of her children said he'd never expect such violence."When you guys were together, did you ever see anything that would lead you to think that this was possible?" WISN 12 News reporter Nick Bohr asked Wagester's former boyfriend. VIDEO: People who know accused woman shocked by allegations"Never in a million years," Andre Pirtle said. "She did what she had to do, whether she was struggling or not, she did the best she could and what she had to do with her kids."Those who have known Wagester said she's incapable of the charges issued against her.Longtime co-workers at a Waukesha George Webb restaurant, and her grandfather, who was inside the restaurant Tuesday night, told WISN 12 News she was a hard worker and loving mother."Working third shift and then coming home to have to deal with two toddlers -- one who is potty-training -- and dealing with their own issues, and him going off to work, it can be stressful on anybody," family friend Melody Ice said.Family members said Wagester lived in the Waukesha apartment with her boyfriend, his two young children and her 15-year-old son. If convicted of the charge, Wagester could face 60 years in prison. The girl's biological mother is also in jail. The Waukesha County District Attorney's Office is investigating whether there was abuse to the other children in the apartment.