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The Aliamanu Military Reservation, as seen in July 2011. A 7-month-old girl died Sunday at a home on Aliamanu Military Reservation in Honolulu, Army officials confirmed.
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A 7-month-old girl died Sunday at a home on Aliamanu Military Reservation in Honolulu, Army officials confirmed.
Army spokesman Dennis Drake said the case is being handled by Honolulu police and referred any questions to them because the investigation is ongoing. He
did, however, verify the
infant was not at her home, but was instead at another person’s home.
The Stars and Stripes newspaper reported that a neighbor filed a report of the operation of an unlicensed day care next door to her after she alleged
seeing crying, unattended children, most younger than 5 years of age.
Neighbors spoke out at a town hall meeting Monday night, saying that the baby and her older sibling were left at the day care for an overnight stay, the paper said.
Military police shut down the day care Thursday, the newspaper reported.
Honolulu Police Department spokeswoman
Michelle Yu said Tuesday that police are classifying the case as an unattended death.
The Honolulu Medical
Examiner’s Office would not release any details on the death.
The Stars and Stripes also reported that despite the neighbor’s numerous calls to the Army housing authority and military
police, the day care always reopened after being raided several times by police.
In one instance a toddler put a butane lighter in his mouth, the story says.
The newspaper also
reports that the commander of Army Garrison Hawaii said at the meeting that tenants face eviction after two infractions, including running an unlicensed day care, and
that the day care in
question received a second cease-and-desist order in April.