A 24-year-old Maryland woman was arrested and is facing charges with the murder of her infant child in Cecil County.
A 24-year-old Maryland woman was arrested and is facing charges with the murder of her infant child in Cecil County.
Destiny Faith Chiveral, of Charlestown, Maryland, has been charged with first-degree murder and first-degree child abuse, according to Maryland State Police.
On Dec. 4, just after 9 a.m., authorities responded to a 911 call in the unit-block of Leedle Circle in Rising Sun, Maryland. When they arrived, they pronounced a five-week-old infant dead at the scene, the police said.
State police investigators conducted and executed search warrants for Chiveral, her phone and two residences in connection with her.
Police said that evidence found is what led to the arrest and charges against Chiveral.
She is being held without bond at the Cecil County Detention Center.
This is an ongoing investigation.
Below is a map of the area where the infant child was found dead:
(Courtesy Google Maps)
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The death of a baby killed in a Northwest D.C. overdose incident in May will be investigated as a homicide, police said.
The death of a baby killed in a Northwest D.C. overdose incident in May will be investigated as a homicide, police said.
Officials said they were called to an apartment in the 1400 block of Newton Street just after 11 a.m. on May 27 for a report of an unconscious infant.
First responders took the infant — 2-month-old Amiri Royal Bynum — to a local hospital where he died, according to police.
D.C.’s chief medical examiner determined on Aug. 26 that fentanyl intoxication was the reason Bynum died. His death was ruled a homicide.
Officials haven’t offered any information about possible suspects in the homicide investigation.
Police asked anyone with information about the incident to call them at 202-727-9099. They’ve also offered a reward of up to $25,000, which will help arrest and convict a suspect.
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The death of an infant on the 405 Freeway near Culver City may be connected to a Topanga-area slaying and a deadly crash in Redondo Beach, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed Monday.
Officers were dispatched to the 6200 block of Variel Avenue in Woodland Hills around 7:35 a.m. Monday, where they found an unresponsive man in his 30s. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Detectives later learned of two incidents that had occurred earlier in the morning and might have ties to their homicide investigation, LAPD said.
Around 4:30 a.m., officers were called to the northbound 405 Freeway near the Sepulveda Boulevard/Howard Hughes Parkway exit, according to the California Highway Patrol. An infant girl about 5 or 6 months old was found in the roadway, and a 9-year-old girl was found on the right shoulder.
The infant was pronounced dead at the scene, and the girl was taken to a hospital with minor to moderate injuries. A 911 caller reported seeing a black sedan near where the girls were found, according to City News Service.
“At this time, Valley Bureau Homicide detectives are working with the California Highway Patrol on the incident involving the two children and believe it is connected to the Topanga homicide scene,” LAPD said on X.
In a further twist, the LAPD and CHP are collaborating with the Redondo Beach Police Department to determine whether the two violent scenes are connected to a fatal car crash in the beach city that involved a black sedan, L.A. police said.
The collision occurred around 5 a.m. Monday when a female driver crashed into a tree. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
CBS News reported that detectives identified a suspect in their investigation as the mother of the children found on the freeway and the wife of the man found in Topanga.
The LAPD did not confirm this information when reached by phone.
A Michigan mother was arrested Thursday on felony charges in connection to her 8-month-old son’s drowning death last year when the baby was left alone in a bathtub while she was on the phone for more than 20 minutes, according to the local sheriff’s office.
Olivia Miller, 23, of Sparta Township, Michigan, is facing one count of homicide — involuntary manslaughter and one count of second-degree child abuse in the November 2023 death of her 8-month-old son, Asher Johnson, court records show.
Investigators determined that Miller was home alone with her baby when the boy drowned and said that the mother told varying accounts of what happened, according to a statement by the Kent County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO).
Newsweek reached out via email on Saturday to KCSO and Miller’s attorney Frank Stanley for comment.
Miller is currently being held on a $300,000 bond at the Kent County jail, online records show. She appeared for her arraignment on Friday where she pleaded not guilty to all charges, according to local station WZZM.
Olivia Miller, 23, of Sparta Township, Michigan, was arrested and is facing charges of involuntary manslaughter and second-degree child abuse in the death of her infant son, Asher Joseph Johnson, who drowned in a bathtub… Olivia Miller, 23, of Sparta Township, Michigan, was arrested and is facing charges of involuntary manslaughter and second-degree child abuse in the death of her infant son, Asher Joseph Johnson, who drowned in a bathtub in November 2023, local authorities said.
Kent County Sheriff’s Office
On November 22, 2023, KCSO deputies, Sparta Police Department (SPD) officers and paramedics responded to a home off 16 Mile Road in Sparta Township for a call regarding a baby who had drowned in a bathtub, the sheriff’s office said.
Miller was the only one home with her baby when she left him unattended in a bathtub with the water running, KCSO Deputy Anna Birkeland wrote in a probable-cause affidavit obtained by Michigan news website MLive.
“Throughout the investigation, Olivia gave varying stories of what occurred surrounding Asher’s death,” Birkeland wrote.
The mother told investigators that she left her baby, sitting up in the bathtub that was filled a few inches and had the water running, for five minutes while she went to the laundry room. When she returned, Miller said she found Johnson floating, with his face underwater, according to the affidavit.
Miller said that she tried to revive her baby until first responders arrived, the court document states.
During the investigation, detectives analyzed Miller’s cellphone activity around the time of her son’s death and found that she used her phone from 3:17 p.m. until she called 911 at 3:38 p.m. During that timeframe, there was only an 18-second break in her phone usage, the court documents state.
Two minutes before she called 911, Miller called the baby’s paternal grandmother twice to tell her the boy had drowned.
Four minutes before she called 911, she texted her father that she was “Just trying to talk while I have time while Asher’s taking a nap,” according to the affidavit.
SPD arrived at the scene seven minutes after Miller called 911 and found the baby lying face-up on the living room floor. Officers attempted life-saving measures before the boy was taken to Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital where he was pronounced dead, court records state.
The baby’s cause of death was determined to be drowning, according to an autopsy conducted by Kent County’s Chief Medical Examiner Stephen Cohle, who also estimated that the infant had been lying on his back on the floor for a minimum of 20 minutes before authorities arrived.
Miller’s attorney told WZZM that there was “no indication of intentionality” regarding the mother’s alleged actions.
“There’s no indication of intentionality here and that’s important to point out, Stanley said. “This is a tragic situation she suffered tremendously, emotionally from the death of her child. She loves that child. I’ve been inside that house. There are photographs all over that house of her, the father with that child.”
Miller is due back in court on February 7.
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