Unreviewed: Child death in Dougherty County under investigation
Jennifer Parks
ALBANY — The Dougherty District Attorney Child Death Team is involved in the investigation of the death of a 13-month old girl, District Attorney Greg Edwards confirmed Monday.
Not many details were available Monday, other than the girl died in Dougherty County, and that there were other county ties involved, Edwards said. The district attorney would not elaborate further regarding where the death took place or when it occurred.
Edwards also said authorities were waiting to hear back regarding the autopsy results as well as “other forensic review.”
“We are waiting to see what we are dealing with along those lines,” he said.
Such incidents are generally looked into by the Child Death Team, which is a unit that responds to any report of a juvenile death to determine whether it was a natural death, an accident or the result of some criminal act.
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