CHILD'S DEATH INVESTIGATED HOSPITAL SUSPECTED ABUSE.Byline: Amy Raisin raisin, in botany and cooking raisin, dried fruit of certain varieties of grapevines bearing grapes with a high content of sugar and solid flesh. Although the fruit is sometimes artificially dehydrated, it is usually sun-dried. Darvish Staff Writer VALENCIA - Sheriff's homicide homicide (hŏm`əsīd), in law, the taking of human life. Homicides that are neither justifiable nor excusable are considered crimes. A criminal homicide committed with malice is known as murder, otherwise it is called manslaughter. detectives are investigating the death of a 5-year-old girl who was taken to a local hospital Friday after suffering a seizure at a Castaic home where the child's mother was working as a housekeeper HOUSEKEEPER. One who occupies a house. 2. A person who occupies every room in the house, under a lease, except one, which is reserved for his landlord, who pays all the taxes, is not a housekeeper. 1 Chit. Rep. 502. , authorities said. Paramedics responded to a seizure call at a Castaic residence Friday afternoon and transported the child to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital in Valencia. The hospital summoned deputies from the Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, sheriff's station at 1:45 p.m. after discovering ``indications of past child abuse,'' on the girl, said Lt. Larry Gump of the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. sheriff's station. It was not clear when the child died. The child's mother, who cleans houses, arrived Friday with two children and a man to clean a Castaic residence. The family lives in a motel in Van Nuys, Gump said. ``It looks like the dad and two kids came with her to work,'' he said. Sheriff's deputies who arrived at the hospital summoned homicide detectives, who were en route to Newhall Memorial shortly before 5 p.m. Gump said no arrests had been made as of Friday evening. Amy Raisin Darvish, (661) 257-5254 amy.raisin(at)dailynews.com |
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