Police: Malnourished, abused 5-year-old Michigan girl dies
Source: Associated Press
Police: Malnourished, abused 5-year-old Michigan girl dies
| May 27, 2015 | Updated: May 27, 2015 7:22pm
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Photo By Mark R. Rummel/AP
Port Huron police speak to Frank Hawkins about the investigation of the death of a
five-year-old child Wednesday, May 27, 2015, in Port Huron, Mich. Police say an
apparently malnourished 5-year-old girl found at a Port Huron home has died and three
other children have been removed from the home during the investigation. Hawkins is
the grandfather of the child. (Mark R. Rummel/The Port Huron Times Herald via AP)
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PORT HURON, Mich. (AP) A malnourished, abused 5-year-old girl has died, police said Wednesday, and authorities have removed another severely malnourished child and two other apparently healthy children from the southeastern Michigan home where she was found.
The dead girl's 27-year-old father and 25-year-old stepmother were arrested and were being held pending charges, Port Huron public safety director Chief Michael Reaves told reporters Wednesday afternoon.
"There is evidence of foul play present at the scene. We are treating this as a homicide investigation," Reaves said.
Port Huron police said they responded Tuesday night to a report of an unresponsive child. The girl was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Police-Malnourished-abused-5-year-old-Michigan-6289308.php
TDale313
(7,820 posts)Need to spend the rest of their lives behind bars. This is premeditated murder in the cruelest way possible.
greatlaurel
(2,004 posts)By slashing budgets for child protection services, the anti government GOP make sure more of these tragedies are going to occur. Children are unprotected, but since they do not make campaign contributions, they do not matter to the GOP politicians. Children are expendable according to GOP politicians once they are born.
The GOP is pro-death.
Rest in peace poor little baby. What a horrible tragedy.
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)"We were shocked, Shocked, SHOCKED" she was being abused.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)more on justice than on vengeance, but something like this make me want to exercise vengeance in a way that is anything but humane.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,365 posts)If the current all-Repub government hasn't re-established it by now, they probably won't.
But these monsters will need to be kept in isolated confinement, not in the general prison populations. Or their fates will be, as you say, anything but humane.