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CLEVELAND -- Tyesha Hamilton, the mother accused of causing the death of her 2-year-old daughter, has been indicted on murder charges.

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason announced the indictment on Wednesday. A statement from the Prosecutor's office reads: "Tyesha Hamilton was indicted by a Grand Jury for the aggravated murder of her 2-year-old daughter. She faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole."

She was indicted on 6 counts of aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault and endangering children.

When paramedics carried the lifeless body of Alexandria Hamilton, 2, from an apartment on Longwood Avenue last month, they said they noticed burns all over the little girl's body.

A woman who called 911 that night is a friend of the child's mother, and says Tyesha Hamilton, 29, told her the burns were the result of an accident.

"Was getting the kids ready for the day, she said she took Alexi's clothes off first and she said Alexi just jumped in the tub," said Yakita Malone.

Tyesha Hamilton was charged with murder, but her family and friends have trouble believing the burns on baby "Lexi" were the result of an intentional act.

"I don't believe it, because from my observations, I haven't seen anything like that," Malone said.

But a Euclid couple who served as foster parents to Alexandria and her three siblings after they were taken from their mother by children's services said they warned authorities that Tyesha Hamilton was not ready for the rigors of parenting.

Foster parent Kathy Coffey said, "You add four children to that mix, we knew at some point, she was just going to be overwhelmed, you could see it."

Coffey and her husband said the children showed signs of mistreatment after visits with their mother, and they told children's services that baby Alexi and her siblings would be at risk when they were returned to their mother in 2009.

"There's a lot on their docket, I realize that but you're dealing with lives, you're dealing with lives," said foster parent Ollie Coffey.

But children's services director Deb Forkas said the foster parents offered no specifics about how Alexandria and her siblings may have been mistreated.

Forkas told Fox 8 News, "By law, we must re-unify children with their parents. The mother had worked hard on the goals set in her case plan. Everyone, including the court, agreed that she was in complete compliance. She had rights to her children."

Children's services concedes that case workers did not know that Tyesha Hamilton had recently moved her children to a motel in Warrensville heights, where investigators believe Alexandria was scalded to death.

"All I can think about is how that baby suffered, if she was burned, that is one of the most horrific things that can happen to the human body, much less a two-year-old's," said Kathi Coffey.