A One-Month-old Baby Died On The 1100-Block Of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive

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One person was charged with murder and another faces a criminal abuse charge after a one-month-old child dies in Paducah.

The Paducah Police Depart. said police were called to a location in the 1100-block of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive for a report where an infant was unresponsive on November 28, 2023.

Once the first officers got to the scene, police said they found Victoria Martin, 40, holding her one-month-old daughter. The officers then started CPR on the infant.

The female child was then taken by ambulance to the Baptist Health Paducah where it was pronounced dead. Police said the death was due to suffocation.

"Martin refused to talk with detectives, but told Department for Community Based Service (DCBS) workers she was sitting in bed, holding the infant and eating, about 3 a.m. on Nov. 28. She said she passed out and awoke at 3:40 a.m. to find the child unresponsive and not breathing. She did not call for help at the time; another adult in the home called 911 after he awoke about 5 a.m. and learned the baby was unresponsive," the Paducah Police Department stated in a press release.

Police said toxicology results were looked over by Paducah Detective Danny Slack and said Martin was "significantly intoxicated at the time" and that the autopsy results state the child "died of positional asphyxiation".

Eugene B. Thomas Jr. is reportedly the child's father and was charged with first-degree criminal abuse.

"Slack said Thomas knew Martin regularly abuses alcohol, and that she is supposed to be supervised anytime she is with her other two children, but he still left the infant and the other children in her care," police stated in the press release.

Police also said Martin does not have custody of the two other children (1 and 5 years old) due to previous criminal charges. Police state she was also convicted of second-degree criminal abuse in 2019 after her then-seven-month-old daughter had a fractured skull and brain bleed. At that time, Martin was sentenced to four years in prison.

Woman charged with murder, man charged with criminal abuse after one-month-old child dies

PADUCAH, Ky. -- One person was charged with murder and another faces a criminal abuse charge after a one-month-old child dies in Paducah.

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