After weeks hovering between life and death, a 3-year-old boy was dumped by his aunt in a lake in the United States, According to his relatives in a statement, identified as Josiah Brown, or as they affectionately called him JoJo, he died.
Since September 19, Brown was being treated by specialists, after suffering a cardiac episode, The product of a fear of drowning when dumped in the nation’s largest Lake Michigan, by her 34-year-old Aunt Victoria Moreno.
The boy was rescued from the water by the fire department, which reported that the little boy was in a “critical” health condition, for which he was hospitalized, until he finally died this Sunday. This Monday, September 26, medical officials and relatives reported the child’s death.
Moreno’s case, on the other hand, came to light on Wednesday, September 21, the date on which he was presented to the authorities after his arrest in the previous days, after which, according to investigative entities, he tried to provide a scenario for the death. had demanded. of his nephew.
The woman was arrested on September 19 as part of emergency care for a child who had fallen in Lake Michigan. The authorities can establish the alleged responsibility of the woman who, despite seeing the child fall into the water, did not take any action to help her or tried to ask others to do the same.
Now within the framework of the procedure being carried out against the woman, she is charged with being responsible for a count of murder and assault, a situation where It covers grave circumstances as the victim, apart from being her relative, is also a defenseless minor.
Local media reported that the incident took place around Navy Pier, where the woman asked the child to be carried to the edge of the pier, later pushing her into the water without proper help.
Within the evidence material collected by the authorities to present the woman before the judicial courts, apart from testimonial evidence, concrete evidence was also given citing recordings of security cameras near the location of the ‘accident’, in which you can can see the pre-planned way in which The woman took the minor to the ghat, later pushed her into the water,
At the scene, some witnesses accused the woman of not taking proper care of the child, alleging that she was found running around, without the company of adults.
Amidst the scandal of attempt to murder against the girl, it was also learned that the woman had made a similar attempt against her other nephews., and even the same affected. On a previous occasion, when he had, without permission, borrowed a family car which he had several of his relatives board, warning that it would take them to the same point, the Navy Pier.
However, on that occasion, an attempt to prosecute the lives of her nephews was unsuccessful by other members of her family, due to the fact that one of the minors in the car informed her parents, who They arrive at the place to prevent the occurrence of a strange incident.,
