The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office has turned to the public in an attempt to locate a mother wanted in connection with her 2-year-old son’s death in Evergreen last year.

Last week, Takara Kay Juntunen, 22, was charged with felony negligent homicide and criminal possession of dangerous drugs. She is wanted on a $100,000 warrant.

The Sheriff’s Office issued a message to the public on its Facebook page on Wednesday asking for help locating Juntunen. According to the post, she was last seen in Somers on Tuesday.

“We have not come up with her yet,” Sheriff Chuck Curry said Tuesday afternoon. “We are actively looking.”

Anyone with information on Juntunen’s whereabouts is asked to call Flathead Crimestoppers at 752-TIPS. Tipsters may be eligible for a reward.

Juntunen’s 2-year-old son, Forrest Groshelle, was killed on Feb. 18, 2015, in an act of child abuse.

Juntunen’s boyfriend, Brandon Lee Walter Newberry, 22, was sentenced April 19 to 40 years in the Montana State Prison for killing Forrest. He entered an Alford plea to mitigated deliberate homicide earlier this year. An Alford plea allows a defendant to maintain his or her innocence, but acknowledge that a jury is likely to find the defendant guilty at trial.

Prosecutor Andrew Clegg alleges in charging documents that Juntunen negligently caused her child’s death “by placing the child in the physical care of Brandon Newberry, who she knew, or should have known, was causing injury to the child, knowing Newberry was using methamphetamine on a daily basis and failing to remove the child from the situation and failing to seek medical care for the child.”

Juntunen allegedly told investigators that Forrest had a fever in the days leading up to his death and had been vomiting brown “stuff,” but she did not feel that the child should have gone to the doctor.

A medical examiner determined Forrest died of blunt force trauma to the abdomen that was equivalent to a gunshot.

Juntunen allegedly admitted using methamphetamine daily leading up to Forrest’s death. Prosecutors claim her father turned in a backpack where she had stashed drug paraphernalia in his vehicle shortly after the murder. First responders had noted that there appeared to be drug paraphernalia in the home, but when deputies arrived later, the home appeared to have been cleaned, prosecutors claim.

Juntunen faces up to 25 years in prison and $100,000 in fines if convicted on both charges.

The Sheriff’s Office social media post had been shared more than 600 times in four hours Wednesday afternoon.

“We’ll come up with her,” Curry said.

Reporter Megan Strickland can be reached at 758-4459 or mstrickland@dailyinterlake.com.