ANIYA CROCKETT - 2 yo - (2010) Chicago IL

An autopsy conducted on Sunday ruled that the death of a 2-year-old
girl found unresponsive in her South Side home on Saturday was a
homicide, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.Aniya
Crockett was pronounced dead at Holy Cross Hospital about noon
Saturday. The medical examiner's office said she died of multiple blunt
force trauma resulting from child abuse.Police said Aniya was
dropped off at home that morning and was in the care of a relative who
later found her unresponsive and called paramedics. Wentworth Area
detectives are conducting an investigation, and no one was in custody
Sunday afternoon, Chicago police Officer Darryl Baety said.The
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has opened an
investigation into an allegation of abuse against a friend of Aniya's
mother, said Kendall Marlowe, a spokesman for the agency. The agency had
no prior contact with the child or her mother, he said.

The death of a 2-year-old girl from the South Side Englewood
neighborhood was caused by multiple blunt force trauma and child abuse,
and her death has been ruled a homicide.

The findings come from an autopsy performed Sunday by the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.

According to the medical examiner's office, 2-year-old Aniya
Crockett was found unresponsive at her home at 6816 S. Wood St. and
taken to Holy Cross Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at noon on
Saturday. The circumstances of the girl's death were not immediately
known, police News Affairs Officer Darryl Baety said.

Police previously said one person was in custody in connection
with the death, but later corrected that report to specify that no one
is in custody as of 7:45 p.m.

The state Department of Children and Family Services is
investigating "an allegation of death by abuse against (the romantic
partner)" of the child's mother, according to agency spokesman Kendall
Marlowe.

DCFS has not had any prior investigations involving this child or
her mother, Marlowe said on Sunday afternoon. He did not have any
additional information on the case or the family.

Police had been conducting a death investigation, but with the
autopsy findings Wentworth Area detectives have reclassified the case as
a homicide investigation.

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Autopsy-2-Year-Old-Beaten-to-Death-child-abuse-west-englewood-Aniya-Crockett-99724044.html

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