DCFS investigating death of 3-month-old Riverdale girl

SHARE DCFS investigating death of 3-month-old Riverdale girl
ax053_5a0c_91.jpg

Sun-Times file photo

Authorities are investigating the death early Tuesday of a 3-month-old girl in the Riverdale neighborhood on the Far South Side.

Officers responded at 11 p.m. Monday to a call of an unresponsive infant in the 13000 block of South Drexel and discovered the girl unresponsive, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

She was pronounced dead at Roseland Hospital at 1:08 a.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office.

An autopsy Monday did not rule on her cause and manner of death pending further investigation.

DCFS is investigating an allegation of neglect, according to agency spokeswoman Alissandra Calderon. The investigation is pending.

Area South detectives are also investigating.

The Latest
The man was shot in the left eye area in the 5700 block of South Christiana Avenue on the city’s Southwest Side.
Most women who seek abortions are women of color, especially Black women. Restricting access to mifepristone, as a case now before the Supreme Court seeks to do, would worsen racial health disparities.
The Bears have spent months studying the draft. They’ll spend the next one plotting what could happen.
Woman is getting anxious about how often she has to host her husband’s hunting buddy and his wife, who don’t contribute at all to mealtimes.
He launched a campaign against a proposed neo-Nazis march at a time the suburb was home to many Holocaust survivors. His rabbi at Skokie Central Congregation urged Jews to ignore the Nazis. “I jumped up and said, ‘No, Rabbi. We will not stay home and close the windows.’ ”