An infant girl died Saturday a week after being beaten at her home in Hammond, Indiana according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
About 7:30 p.m. Sept. 29, officers responded to St. Catherine’s Hospital in East Chicago in response to a 5-month-old girl who was brought in by ambulance from a home in Hammond’s Hessville neighborhood, Hammond police said. The mother of the girl called police and said there was something wrong with her.
The girl suffered “blunt force injuries to the head” about 6 p.m. Sept. 29 at her home in the 6400 block of New Hampshire Avenue, the medical examiner’s office said. She was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital in Chicago, where she was pronounced dead about 7:30 a.m. Saturday.
An autopsy conducted Sunday ruled the infant’s death a homicide, the medical examiner’s office said.
Hammond police are investigating and the case will eventually be presented to the Lake County prosecutors office for review, police said.
The Indiana Department of Child Services declined to comment about the incident.
