CHATSWORTH, Ga. — The Murray County grandmother charged with murder in the death of her 1-year-old grandson was in Superior Court in Murray County on Thursday and her trial is scheduled for October.

Conasauga Judicial Circuit District Attorney Bert Poston said the trial of Sharon Louise Kay Carrell was originally scheduled for this month’s calendar beginning on June 13 in front of Judge William Boyett, but scheduling conflicts with another trial pushed the trial back.

Carrell pleaded not guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of second-degree cruelty to children. She is represented by Dalton attorney Robert R. McCurry, who said on Wednesday the defense is fully ready for the trial to begin.

Law enforcement officials said the child was found face down in a tub of hot water on Dec. 16, 2015. The child died on Dec. 21 at an Atlanta hospital. Emergency personnel were sent to Carrell’s home at 4619 Brown Bridge Road in Chatsworth after a 911 call concerning a child in cardiac arrest. County fire department workers determined the child was seriously burned.

Carrell was watching two young children that day, officials said. According to an incident report, an uncle of one of the children went inside the home to check on the children. A witness told deputies the 1-year-old was found in scalding hot water.

The uncle said Carrell said there was no water in the tub and she had left the children in the bathroom while she went outside to get some things from her van. The uncle said Carrell claimed to have been out of the house “two or three minutes.” The uncle began administering CPR until the emergency workers arrived.

The trial is being pushed back mainly because of an expected lengthy trial of Jeff Dewayne Bully, 45, who has pleaded not guilty to five counts of rape, six counts of aggravated assault against a person in custody/on parole/on probation/in a hospital, six counts of sodomy, sexual battery and criminal attempt to commit a felony. Bully and Bobby Edwards of Jasper were indicted by a grand jury in May 2015 for assaulting women at a residential substance recovery center in Murray County.