The boy’s body was found on Wednesday morning at Melville J Courson Park in Palmdale, California (Picture: KTLA)
A one-year-old boy was discovered unresponsive at a park playground and his father has been arrested.
Deputies responded to reports of the child at Melville J Courson Park just before 9am on Wednesday, said the Palmdale Sheriff’s Station.
The toddler was rushed to Antelope Valley Medical Center and was pronounced dead there.
Neighbors said the boy was almost turning two years old.
‘My boyfriend woke me up this morning and told me that a little boy had passed out at the park and stopped breathing,’ a neighbor, Destiny Tibbs, told KTLA.
‘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.’
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