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RESULTS OF AUTOPSY ON GIRL, 4, WITHHELD.


Byline: Staff and Wire Services

LANCASTER - An autopsy has been completed on a 4-year-old Lancaster girl whose death resulted in the arrests of her mother and the woman's boyfriend, but the results are being withheld.

Sheriff's homicide investigators placed a ``security hold'' on information related to the post-mortem examination post-mortem examination or autopsy, systematic examination of a cadaver for study or for determining the cause of death. Post-mortems use many methodical procedures to determine the etiology and pathogenesis of diseases, for epidemologic , said coroner's Lt. Fred Corral corral

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. The girl's name has not been released.

Gerardo Romero, the 21-year-old live-in boyfriend of the girl's mother, was jailed without bail on suspicion of murder. The child's mother, Raven Gibbons Famous people named Gibbons include:
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, 23, was jailed on suspicion of child endangerment.

Sheriff's deputies were sent to the couple's Lancaster residence about 10:10 a.m. Sunday, said sheriff's Deputy Tanya Plunkett. The girl was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Her mother and Romero were arrested later that day. The couple's 2- year-old child was placed in protective custody An arrangement whereby a person is safeguarded by law enforcement authorities in a location other than the person's home because his or her safety is seriously threatened. .

Romero was initially believed to be the father of the victim. Detectives later determined that he was not her biological parent, but is the father of Gibbons' other child, according to according to
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 sheriff's officials.

``We saw them bring up the girl,'' neighbor Joyce Montgomery told KCAL kcal kilocalorie.

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 (Channel 9) news. ``I kind of had a bad feeling. They weren't doing CPR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Definition

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. They came out; they had the bag on her. I thought, this was not good.''

Several other neighbors also talked with the TV news crew.

Athenea Parlaman said area residents were ``all depressed. We all have kids. We just don't understand how somebody could do this to their kids.''

Ray Garcia said, ``We all were talking about this this morning. It's a good neighborhood, don't get me wrong. They seemed normal.''

Romero was being held without bail, and the mother was jailed on $100,000 bail, Plunkett said.

Sheriff's investigators planned to present their findings to the District Attorney's Office today, said sheriff's Sgt. Vanette Christensen.
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