Sentenced: Missing 7MO Baby Dies After Being Found Unresponsive Under Pile Of Clothes Inside A Laundry Basket

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A baby reported missing Saturday was found unresponsive by El Paso police inside a home and then rushed to a local hospital, where the 7-month-old later died.

There was no word on the circumstances surrounding the disappearance and discovery by authorities in central El Paso. The baby's cause of death was also not immediately disclosed.

Detectives from EPPD's Crimes Against Persons unit were summoned to the scene around 11:30 a.m. to investigate the incident. Later, police dispatched their Crime Scene unit to the home to gather evidence in the case.

Missing central El Paso toddler dies after being found unresponsive; home examined as crime scene - KVIA

EL PASO, Texas -- A toddler reported missing Saturday was found unresponsive by El Paso police inside a home and then rushed to a local hospital, where the 7-month-old later died. There was no word on the circumstances surrounding the disappearance and discovery by authorities in the 3600 block...

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A mother arrested for Capital Murder in the death of her 7-month old son last year has reached a plea deal with the El Paso District Attorney's office.

The D.A. said Johnnette Dukes pleaded guilty to Attempted Tampering with Physical Evidence as part of the deal.

Dukes is now out of jail and will be on probation for five years and will be mandated to serve 100 hours of community service.

In May of last year, El Paso police said the then 19-year-old mother was arrested for Capital Murder after her baby was found unresponsive inside a laundry basket underneath piled clothing.

Police said Dukes called 911 to report the boy disappeared while she was napping at home. The medical examiner said the baby died of asphyxia.

The D.A. said Dukes wasn't charged with either Capital Murder or Murder because the Medical Examiner's report did not find the baby was either murder or harmed.

El Paso mother accused of killing her baby gets probation after reaching plea deal

EL PASO - A mother arrested for Capital Murder in the death of her 7-month old son last year has reached a plea deal with the El Paso District Attorney's office. The D.A. said Johnnette Dukes pleaded guilty to Attempted Tampering with Physical Evidence as part of the deal. Dukes is now out of jail

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Police officers searching the apartment detected a foul odor before finding the unconscious baby under a stack of compressed clothes inside a laundry basket. The baby was declared dead at a hospital.

Dukes, then 19, told police that she had left A'Legend in his car seat, secured by shoulder straps while she took a nap for more than an hour, according to the complaint affidavit.

Dukes woke up about 10:30 a.m. to find her baby gone and called 911, police said. She told police she had locked the doors to her apartment and no one had entered.

Officers arrived and immediately began searching for the child in and around the apartment complex.

Dukes’ apartment was “very messy, old food and dishes, trash, clothes and dirty diapers were all over the floor of the residence,” the affidavit stated.

An officer found the baby in a fetal position at the bottom of a laundry basket at the foot of a bed in a bedroom. The baby was under a pile of clothes compressed on top of him, the affidavit states.

El Paso mom gets probation in death of baby found in laundry basket after murder case falls apart

An El Paso mother accused of killing her baby who she reported missing gets probation on evidence tampering charge.

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