CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) - A 25-year-old Clovis mother has been arrested in the death of her 18-month-old son.
Clovis police say Rocio D. Montanez (MAHN’-tah-nehz) was arrested late Monday after an investigation was launched when she took her unresponsive son, Noah Trujillo, to a hospital Monday morning with multiple injuries that a doctor reported to police as suspicious.
Efforts to revive the boy were unsuccessful and he died a short time later.
Police said the state Office of the Medical Investigator will do an autopsy to determine manner and cause of death.
Montanez was booked into the Curry County jail on suspicion of child abuse resulting in great body harm to a child.
The jail said Montanez remained jailed Tuesday in lieu of $75,000 bond, and it wasn’t clear whether she has an attorney.
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