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A seven-month-old girl was allegedly killed by her grandmother who sliced her throat with a circular saw when she wouldn’t stop crying.
Officers found the child, identified by family members as Rose Herrera, after being called on Monday morning to a family home on the city’s West Side.
Police said the 52-year-old relative used a power saw to cut the baby’s throat to stop the infant from crying.
Cause of death was confirmed on Tuesday by the Cook County Medical Examiner as blunt force injuries to the head and probable suffocation from a sock placed in the child’s mouth.
The death was declared a homicide, the medical examiner’s office said on Tuesday.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said the woman is in police custody at a hospital with self-inflicted wounds.
Police said both the baby and the woman were found by another relative.
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services officials said the agency had no prior contact with the family.
Authorities said no other children were present in the home at the time of the incident….
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Officers found the child, identified by family members as Rose Herrera, after being called on Monday morning to a family home on the city’s West Side.
Police said the 52-year-old relative used a power saw to cut the baby’s throat to stop the infant from crying.
Cause of death was confirmed on Tuesday by the Cook County Medical Examiner as blunt force injuries to the head and probable suffocation from a sock placed in the child’s mouth.
The death was declared a homicide, the medical examiner’s office said on Tuesday.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said the woman is in police custody at a hospital with self-inflicted wounds.
Police said both the baby and the woman were found by another relative.
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services officials said the agency had no prior contact with the family.
Authorities said no other children were present in the home at the time of the incident….
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