A 23-year-old pregnant Georgia woman is behind bars after police say she killed her one-year-old son.
Gloria Wright was arrested in Rochester, New York, after fleeing her home state. Authorities say on January 8, first responders were called to a home after Wright’s young son was found not breathing. Emergency personnel tried to resuscitate the boy, but he later died at the hospital. After the event, the child’s death was ruled a homicide, with investigators saying he died from blunt force trauma to the head.
“A telephone call with the medical examiner who assisted in the autopsy did conclude that the acute skull fractures were not the result of an accidental fall or drop,” according to a warrant, reported WSB-TV.
Police interviewed Wright on the day of the incident, but did not arrest her at that time. Days later, after the medical examiner’s report, they learned she had disappeared. This set off a nearly two-week manhunt, in which a $5,000 reward was offered for information on her whereabouts. According to a January 18 statement from Rockdale County Sherriff’s Office, she was found in Rochester, New York, with the help of U.S. Marshals.
Notably, police say that Wright’s arrest was important so that authorities could protect the life of the preborn child she is carrying from future danger.
“We have a small child that has lost its life in the hands of its mother and we would like to get this mother in custody because she is currently carrying another child right now, so we would like to get her in custody for her safety and for the safety of that child,” Rockdale County Sheriff’s investigator Grote Levett told WSB-TV before Wright’s arrest.
Wright will likely be charged with first-degree murder and first-degree cruelty to children; according to reports, it is not clear when she will be extradited back to Rockdale County, Georgia.
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