An 11-month-old baby is dead with a fractured skull and there are conflicting stories about what led to her demise. On Wednesday morning around 8 police found baby Mia Lopez dead - lying face up on a sofa in her parents' home on Curl Thompson Street. The 21 year old mother Karen Perez told police that she was taking care of her baby when little Mia began to cry and gasp for breath. Shortly after Mia became motionless. She was rushed to the KHMH but was pronounced dead on arrival. The postmortem shows that baby Mia died due to multiple skull fractures from blunt force trauma to the head.
When we spoke to the parents today, they told us that baby Mia had fallen down the front steps 5 days before and hit her head. They insisted that it was an accident and refused to give an interview. Now, when we spoke to a neighbor, we got another version - the neighbor told us that it wasn't an accident and that the baby was being constantly abused. The neighbor also said that social services have already came to take the baby away but that they were somehow reunited. And what are the police saying?
Well, they haven't established a solid cause or motive as yet.
Supt. Hilberto Romero, O.C., - CIB
"We are also following up on that case. I know the postmortem results came in that the child died as a result of injuries to the head and we are following up on that."
Reporter
"Can you tell us where the course of the investigation..."
Supt. Hilberto Romero, O.C., - CIB
"We will continue recording statements and continue doing some interviews in regards to that incident to determine what may have caused those injuries on the child."
Reporter
"Do the parents insist that it was accidental?"
Supt. Hilberto Romero, O.C., - CIB
"The parents are being interviewed at this time."
Perez and her husband just recently moved into the neighborhood. They have another baby girl living with them.
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