A toddler has died after allegedly being pushed from Chicago's Navy Pier into Lake Michigan by his aunt, CBS Chicago reported.
The three-year-old, whom prosecutors recognized as Josiah Brown, suffered cardiac arrest and mind injury because of the alleged incident final week. Prosecutors say that Brown's aunt, Victoria Moreno, shoved him off of the pier and didn't attempt to assist him as he struggled underwater for about half-hour, on Monday afternoon.
Ashton King, a lady who says she witnessed the incident involving Moreno and Brown at Navy Pier, advised CBS Chicago she noticed the boy floating within the water whereas the aunt allegedly stood by and watched.
Moreno, 34, was initially charged with two felony counts of tried homicide within the first diploma and aggravated battery to a baby youthful than 13 inflicting everlasting mind injury, Chicago Police introduced Wednesday. On the time, Brown was hospitalized for his accidents, authorities mentioned in a information launch noting that the toddler was discovered Monday in "important situation" and brought to a close-by hospital by emergency personnel.
Moreno, a resident of Des Plaines, Illinois, was denied bail throughout a bond listening to that befell as police introduced her costs, despite the protection's arguments suggesting that she suffers from psychological sickness. Cook dinner County Circuit Courtroom Choose Susanna Ortiz reportedly described Moreno's alleged actions as "deliberately brutal and heinous" on the listening to, in response to the Chicago Solar-Occasions.
Josiah Brown's grandfather, Dan Brown, advised WLS-TV sooner or later after the incident that his household wants "a number of prayer proper now."
"All people's prayer helps," Brown mentioned on the time. "God makes issues occur. That is what we're banking on proper now."