Toddler on Life Support; Youth Arrested
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SANTA ANA — Police arrested a 17-year-old Friday after his girlfriend’s 18-month-old daughter was hospitalized in extremely critical condition.
The Santa Ana teen-ager, whose name is being withheld because he is a juvenile, was being held in Juvenile Hall on suspicion of felony child endangerment, Sgt. Dick Faust said. The charges could change if the child, Carina Ramirez, dies. She has been placed on life support, Faust said.
Police responded to a residence in the 200 block of North Figueroa Street at 12:23 p.m. on a report of a child not breathing. The teen-ager was taken into custody at the scene and questioned throughout the day by investigators of the Police Department’s child abuse unit.
Police said they did not know whether the suspect was the child’s father.
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