Signal Senior Writer
jholt@the-signal.com
Posted: July 22, 2008 10:14 p.m.
Local law enforcement officers are calling it "a bad day for kids" as they follow-up on the death of an infant and on an accident involving a child who fell from a two-storey window, now hospitalized.
A sergeant fielding calls from the media at the Santa Clarita Sheriff's Station delivered some bad news to inquiring reporters about children, on the heels of Monday night's death of a two-year-old boy in Canyon Country.
"It's a bad day for kids," Sgt. Michael Wright told The Signal.
Shortly before 2 p.m., sheriff's deputies still reeling from the sudden death of toddler Jack Roscoe Winchester on High Point Place in Canyon Country were called to another house in Canyon Country.
A 5-month-old girl is believed to have died of natural causes inside a home on Palomino Place, Sgt. Wright said.
Then, in an unrelated incident about three and a half hours later, deputies were asked to respond to Stillmore Street, also in Canyon Country, where a child had reportedly fallen out of a two-storey window.
The child, whose name and gender were not included in the preliminary report to the sheriff's station, was rushed to a children's hospital in the San Fernando Valley, Sgt. Wright said.
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