SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. — A New York mother is behind bars after her toddler son died while he and his 6-year-old sibling were home alone in Spring Valley, authorities said.
According to WABC and WNBC, the incident occurred shortly after 8:30 p.m. Saturday at a Kennedy Drive home. Spring Valley police and fire crews arrived to find the unresponsive 1-year-old boy “trapped between a bed and the wall,” the department said in a Facebook post. Rescuers then freed the toddler and rushed him to a nearby hospital, where he died, the post said.
21SV09197 On June 19, 2021, at approximately 8:40 pm, the Spring Valley Police Department responded to 101 Kennedy Dr....
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Investigators later learned “that the child was left in the custody of his 6-year-old sibling without any adult supervision,” according to the post.
Police arrested the toddler’s mother, Marie Dorleus, 36, who faces a manslaughter charge, the news outlets reported.
No further information was immediately available.
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