A one-year-old boy has been found dead in a children’s playground in California.
Cameron Flores, who was 19 months old, was discovered unresponsive in Melville J Courson Park at 9am on Wednesday.
His dad, Schaffer Grindstaff, 29, was arrested for accessory to conceal a crime and child endangerment.
The toddler was rushed from the park in Palmdale, California, to Antelope Valley Medical Center and was pronounced dead.
Cameron’s cause of death was not clear.
Neighbour Destiny Tibbs said: ‘My boyfriend woke me up this morning and told me that a little boy had passed out at the park and stopped breathing.’
‘The police who came knocking at my door asked if we had cameras and if we saw anything but we told them no. He was really devastated and I am too because that’s really sad.’
Tibbs added that authorities told him the toddler did not have a known medical history and that something may have happened to him inside his home before he died, according to KTLA.
The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services stated that ‘state law protects the confidentiality of records for all children and families who may have come to the attention of child protective services, and prohibits confirming or commenting on whether a child or family has been involved with the department’.
Cameron’s death remains under investigation.
The death comes about a month after a 10-year-old boy woke up to find that his father shot dead his three brothers and their mother at their home in Oklahoma City.
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