07-02-2014, 09:17 AM
Baby Strangles Self While Alone in Car, Virginia
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2-year-old Mikayla died of blunt force trauma to her neck, the state medical examiner’s office said. Police believe she got her head and neck trapped between one of the car’s windows and the door frame, possibly after she activated one of the window buttons.
During a brief hearing Friday in Chesterfield Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court, substitute Judge Mary Owens ordered Inge to be held without bond pending her next court appearance July 7.
Chesterfield police said they were called to a mobile home park on Jefferson Davis Highway about 9:40 p.m. for a report of a child not breathing. Officers found the child and she was rushed to VCU Medical Center, where she died.
Chesterfield police Lt. P.J. McCann said the investigation has revealed that Inge left the child in the car to visit friends. She was inside for about five minutes before coming back out to check on her daughter. “It was a very short period of time,” McCann said.
When police arrived, they found the car keys in the ignition and the engine turned off. “Either the ignition had to have been on or the car had to have been running” for the electric window buttons to operate, McCann said. (HOTD: sounds like police think Tabitha left the car running and tried to lie about that part -- might explain holding her without bond.)
Larry Inge said his daughter had stopped by a customer’s home to drop off some hair products and left the child for a very short time. When she came back and found her daughter, she tried to revive her, Inge said.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/local/...mode=story
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Sad case -- RIP, Mikayla Thurston.
2-year-old Mikayla died of blunt force trauma to her neck, the state medical examiner’s office said. Police believe she got her head and neck trapped between one of the car’s windows and the door frame, possibly after she activated one of the window buttons.
During a brief hearing Friday in Chesterfield Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court, substitute Judge Mary Owens ordered Inge to be held without bond pending her next court appearance July 7.
Chesterfield police said they were called to a mobile home park on Jefferson Davis Highway about 9:40 p.m. for a report of a child not breathing. Officers found the child and she was rushed to VCU Medical Center, where she died.
Chesterfield police Lt. P.J. McCann said the investigation has revealed that Inge left the child in the car to visit friends. She was inside for about five minutes before coming back out to check on her daughter. “It was a very short period of time,” McCann said.
When police arrived, they found the car keys in the ignition and the engine turned off. “Either the ignition had to have been on or the car had to have been running” for the electric window buttons to operate, McCann said. (HOTD: sounds like police think Tabitha left the car running and tried to lie about that part -- might explain holding her without bond.)
Larry Inge said his daughter had stopped by a customer’s home to drop off some hair products and left the child for a very short time. When she came back and found her daughter, she tried to revive her, Inge said.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/local/...mode=story
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Sad case -- RIP, Mikayla Thurston.