(Sykesville, MD) – Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a Carroll County child who died Tuesday after being taken to the hospital with apparent respiratory problems.
The child is identified as Ky’leigh M. Rogers, 8 months, of the 900-block of Caren Drive, Sykesville, Md. Rogers was pronounced dead at the Carroll Hospital Center at about 4:30 p.m. on March 3, 2009.
Maryland State Police at the Westminster Barracks were contacted by staff at the Carroll Hospital Center shortly before the baby died. Troopers responding to the hospital learned that the Sykesville Volunteer Fire Department ambulance had transported the child earlier in the afternoon after responding to a 9-1-1 call from the child’s home reporting the child was having trouble breathing.
Investigators from the State Police Westminster Barracks and the Carroll County Child Advocacy Center began an initial investigation. The preliminary investigation led police to contact the Maryland State Police Homicide Unit. Homicide investigators are continuing the investigation, with assistance from the Westminster Barracks Criminal Investigation Section.
The child’s body was transported to the Office of the State Medical Examiner for an autopsy. The autopsy on Wednesday revealed the child died from blunt force trauma and the death was ruled a homicide.
State Police investigators are working closely with the Carroll County State’s Attorney’s Office. No charges have been filed in connection with the death of the child at this time. The investigation is continuing.
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I'm mad as hell whenever I hear about cases like this because they hardly ever make the abusive child-killers pay for what they did. A few yrs back there was a young girl in Somerset County who died from physical abuse-Mom and boyfriend played dumb about who actually did it and as far as i know neither one is still in prison.WTF????Living with what they did is not punishment enough in my opinion-those are death penalty cases if there ever were any!
ReplyDeleteimo the perps oughtta be blunt force traumaed out of here.
ReplyDeleteAnd Maryland was trying to get rid of the death penalty??? Here is a case that should be NO LESS than the death penalty!
ReplyDeleteFreakin baby beaters, we just need to string them up! I read the mother's penis has been charged.
ReplyDeleteThese situations are so hard to hear. As there is so many people who want children, and can't. These people keep abusing children, they should be given a death sentence. And maybe this is so near and dear to me because i am one of those people who can't have my own children, and am taking in others children to adopt and raise as our own. So there is NO EXCUSE for hurting a child.
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