Mother, boyfriend charged after 8-year-old Indiana girl dies from suffocation
04/08/2020 5:00 pm PDT
via WXIN:
CUMBERLAND, Ind. (WXIN) -- A mother and her boyfriend are facing neglect charges after an 8-year-old girl died in Cumberland, according to the Cumberland Police Department.
Police officers called to the 11000 block of Kirkwood Drive around 4:20 p.m. found an injured girl. She was hospitalized, where she later died.
The girl had sustained multiple injuries to her body, according to Cumberland Police. An autopsy showed the preliminary cause of death was non-accidental trauma resulting from suffocation/asphyxiation.
Kimberly Grosklos, 32, and Derrick Duane Dale, 29, have been charged with neglect of a dependent causing death.
Three other children -- ages 11, 9 and 4 -- were removed from the home.
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