A 3-year-old boy has died after he was pushed into Lake Michigan in Chicago by his aunt, officers stated.
The kid was with Victoria Moreno, 34, on Sept. 19 when she allegedly pushed him into the water within the 700 block of East Grand Avenue, the location of Navy Pier, a vacationer attraction.
“The offender didn’t try to rescue the sufferer,” police stated in a information launch.
The kid was pulled from the water by emergency personnel and transported to a hospital in vital situation, police stated.
The toddler, recognized as Josiah Brown, was pronounced lifeless at 10:16 a.m. Sunday at Lurie Youngsters’s Hospital, the Prepare dinner County Medical Examiner’s Workplace stated.
Moreno was arrested lower than an hour after the boy was within the water on the scene and charged with first-degree tried homicide and aggravated battery of a kid.
Moreno was denied bail at a court docket listening to Wednesday the place the protection argued that she has psychological well being points, NBC Chicago reported.
Prosecutors stated that Moreno lives in Des Plaines, a Chicago suburb, together with her household and left the home with Josiah with out anybody else figuring out.
At Navy Pier, she allegedly allowed him to crawl beneath a chain-link fence blocking entry to the water and pulled him towards her when she noticed individuals watching, prosecutors stated, in response to the station. However when nobody else was round, she climbed over the fence and pushed him off the platform, inflicting him to fall 6 ft into the water beneath, prosecutors alleged.
He was within the water for half-hour when divers pulled him out from the underside of the lake, in response to prosecutors.
NBC Information has reached out to her legal professional for remark. Her subsequent court docket look is scheduled for Friday.
The Prepare dinner County State’s Lawyer Workplace stated in an announcement Monday that to date prices in opposition to Moreno haven’t been upgraded following Josiah’s demise.
“We anticipate that extra prices could also be filed after the health worker’s workplace and police division have accomplished their investigations,” the assertion stated.
