PALMDALE – Authorities have launched an investigation into the suspicious death of a 1-year-old boy in Palmdale.
Around 9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24, deputies responded to a call of a baby not breathing in the 5700 block of Monaco Lane, near 55 Street East, according to Lt. Brandon Dean of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Los Angeles County Fire Department paramedics took the child to a hospital, where he died, Dean said. His name was not immediately released.
The boy’s foster parents are being questioned.
The boy was found unresponsive in a carseat inside a vehicle outside the home, according to multiple media reports, which showed the car being towed away and three other small children being taken from the home, apparently by L.A. County Child Protective Services.
Anyone with information about this death is asked to call the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500.
Anonymous tips can be called in to Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or submitted online at lacrimestoppers.org.
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dad says
I hope dcfs is held responsible they have a lot of children in homes just to he
lp out there friends with income
Random Stranger says
DCFS gets $60,000 for each adoptable child they provide, and most activity there is focused around that. Everything else is low priority busy work. The entire operation needs restructure from the ground up and all relocation profit should go to the children and families that they impact.
JP says
We are not in a position to judge. Especially since we don’t have the full story. We should be sensitive to those that are suffering from their loss.
What if it comes to light this was an accident and we rushed to place blame where it shouldn’t lie?
Investigation says
Here we go again…
Miffed American says
Too much of this is constantly happening. People are taking in children for the money and not for the love and concern of nurturing them. There seems to be no actual serious vetting to make sure where kids are being placed. A full-blown reboot of the Child Protective Services needs to be revamped and people fired and people with expertise brought in to correct this problem. God Bless this innocent child.
JP says
Do you suggest these children sit in group homes instead? Many times foster parents actually want to help these children. Some things happen on accident. Some intentionally. But the children suffer when noone takes them in as well.