A mom in Alabama has been arrested and charged with the alleged homicide of her 4-month-old son after an post-mortem discovered that he had been severely injured, police mentioned.
On Jan. 25, the Chambers County emergency dispatch heart acquired a 911 name at roughly 1:55 PM in reference to a 4-month-old toddler having a seizure at a residence within the Outdated Jackson Heights Housing Venture in Lanett, Alabama, in accordance with an announcement from the Lanett Police Division.
“The East Alabama Fireplace Division was contacted for mutual help and transported the black male toddler to East Alabama Medical Heart (EAMC),” authorities mentioned. “The kid’s situation was assessed by the medical employees at EAMC after which flown to the Kids’s of Alabama Hospital in Birmingham. Alabama.”
The 4-month-old boy, nonetheless, died within the hospital simply 4 days later and was taken to the Alabama Division of Forensic Science Medical Lab in Montgomery, Alabama to bear an post-mortem about what induced his loss of life after police suspected fould play and mentioned “the circumstances of the kid’s loss of life are underneath investigation by the Lanett Police Division.”
On Wednesday, the Lanett Police Division introduced that the boy’s mom — 26-year-old Jamesia Brichae Pruit of Valley, Alabama — was arrested and charged with the alleged homicide of the toddler.
Police didn’t disclose the extent of the accidents the boy suffered however did affirm that this case stays underneath investigation and has requested for anybody with info relating to this case to contact the Lanett Police Division.