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by Mike Donoghue
MILTON – Milton Police are closed-mouth about an 18-month-old child pronounced dead after being found unresponsive in a vehicle in a parking lot on Centre Drive last week.
The name of the dead child, the hometown, and other public details under the law surrounding the death were still being withheld by police one week after the death.
One initial report said the baby was found in a vehicle outside a medical office shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday July 24. It was unclear if the child had been there all day, or was parked elsewhere and then driven by somebody to the office to seek medical help.
MIlton Police, which is usually transparent, said this week they were not answering questions about the death. They were referring inquiries to the Chittenden Unit for Special Investigations, which handles child abuse and sex crimes.
CUSI, after taking over as the lead agency, also has failed to release any public information about the death case. Milton Police said it was asked by CUSI not to share any information with the community.
It was unclear why the extra code of secrecy had been imposed by CUSI. Police in Vermont through the years have routinely provided at least basic information in death cases involving young children within a day or two.
The police silence in the case also prevents members of the public from coming forward to share information that could help investigators.
Milton did offer a brief press release the day after the incident, but had few details.
Milton Rescue responded to Centre Drive for an unresponsive, non-breathing toddler about 5:08 p.m. and rushed the child to the University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC), police said.
Milton and South Burlington Police escorted the ambulance “in an effort to get the child to the medical center as fast and safe as possible,” Milton Police Chief Stephen Laroche said in the release.
“Once at UVMMC lifesaving measures were stopped and the child was declared deceased by Emergency Department doctors,” the chief said.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the Chittenden County State’s Attorney Office are working with CUSI and Milton Police on the investigation.
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we need another high tech gadget priced in the cost of your car because dumb… parents can not take care of their children///
Just because can reproduce doesn’t mean you are stable enough to be a parent, apparently, this child’s death needs to be fully investigated, and whatever so-called
parent or parents need to face the full extent of the law…………………….how pathetic !!
There is no excuse period n the parents need to be charged and held accountable.
Whatever happened here – and it must be public information eventually – it is incredibly tragic and heartbreaking. Truly, as if VT doesn’t extinguish the lives of enough little ones in utero, now this.
Do you think that maybe, just maybe all the fentanyl flooding the nation, the legalization of a quite potent hallucinogenic drug like Marijuana and the mass mocking & trivialization of God & faith wasn’t in the best interest of the people to begin with?
I couldn’t have said it better myself!
I agreed with you until you said something so out of touch, either you were being hyperbolic or you truly don’t know what marijuana does to the body niether forms of consumption truly cause hallucinations.
You should be worried about mushroom gummies being sold in convenient stores. That would actually make sense. I’d say we have bigger issues than marijuana. Like ya know the opiod problem in our state that’s been prevalent for the past 2 decades.
As quiet as they have been someone important must be involved
Brian, that was my first thought, time will tell. Sad nonetheless.
All are assuming its the parents. It maybe . But if not would explain the silence. Either way prayers are needed.
Colleen
>>>”Either way prayers are needed.”<<<
Why? Will prayers bring back the child? Will it make the family heal faster or at all?
Either way, the person responsible deserves to rot in jail. The person most likely worked there and why they haven't released name(s) yet. The ambulance & police station are right across the street so the baby had to have been there for quite some time.
Also not to mention…it’s a doctor’s office
TJ, we all make mistakes, some more grievous than others. But thanks to Jesus dying on the cross for us, anyone can be forgiven if they ask for forgiveness.
Marcia, I agree people make mistakes, and sometimes they make terrible ones. We as a society need to be able to enforce the law where there is intention but also when there is a certain level of irresponsibility.
A grievous injury killed the child, however the intention was not to hurt the child. Yes there was irresponsibility that must be explored, but we shouldn’t treat this like a deliberate homicide. Imagine living with this. This type of mistake is one that one carries for the rest of their lives.
I don’t know the details, and it would certainly change things to find out that the person was on drugs. All the more tragic.
My condolences to the loved ones of this little baby.
Negligent Homicide, if some poor family with 6 kids all on welfare , living in a hotel did this you bet they would get charged. We can’t pick and choose who to enforce laws on. This attorney general needs to go