A young child died after going into cardiac arrest in Boston's Mattapan neighborhood on Tuesday, police said Wednesday, as they investigated what happened.
Genesis Parris is mourning the sudden loss of her 4-year-old son, Sadoni. She said a man she knows took her kids to day care on Tuesday, while she went to the hospital with early contractions.
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WATCH HERE"I trusted him to pick them up, bring them home and for me to sit in the hospital," said Parris.
While she was at the hospital, Parris said the man messaged her that Sadoni wasn't breathing. She raced home and found the man giving chest compressions to the child and 911 was on the phone, she said.
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"My baby is gone," said Genesis.
Boston police said they are treating the case as a criminal investigation, but few details have been released.
The department said officers responded to an apartment building on Hannon Street near Morton Street Tuesday and were told a 3-year-old child who had been reported in cardiac arrest had been taken to a hospital.
Parris said her son had bruises on his face and she wants to know what happened.
"My baby is smart and sweet," she said.
No arrests have been made, police said.
