In some very sad news, a 24 year old mother was found pushing her dead 3-year-old son in a park swing in a La Plata, Maryland park on Friday.
Upon answering the call after a neighbor’s sighting, officers approached the woman and immediately noticed that the boy was dead.
The mother was then asked several questions and taken to a near-by Maryland hospital for evaluation. There were no signs of trauma to the child’s body, according to officials.
The Charles County Sheriff’s Department got a call before 7 a.m. from a resident who said the mother was in Wills Memorial Park, in La Plata, for “an unusually long period of time,” TV station WJLA reported. La Plata is about 30 miles south of Washington.
Officers instantly saw that the child was dead, The Associated Press reported, and took his body to a medical examiner for an autopsy.
The boy’s eyes were shut and there were signs of rigor mortis, Charles County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Diane Richardson told HuffPost.
The mother was possibly in the park the day before and perhaps was there overnight, police said.
“It didn’t appear that she was fully aware of what was going on, ” Richardson said. “It’s just a very sad situation.”
It’s unclear where the mother made her home, but the boy’s grandmother “lives nearby,” Richardson said. – THP
Very sad.
