BALTIMORE (AP) — Authorities have charged a Baltimore woman with child abuse in last year’s death of a baby girl for whom she had been caring.
Baltimore police said detectives arrested Latayia Hutchins, 32, on Thursday and charged her with first-degree child abuse.
Hutchins was arrested after an investigation that began last November, when police were called to a home for a report of a baby not breathing. Six-month-old Indira Henderson was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
Investigators said the girl’s mother had agreed to allow Hutchins to administer an enema to help the child have a bowel movement.
An investigation found that a lubricant Hutchins used for the enema contained Lidocaine, which resulted in the baby being fatally poisoned.