CAPITOL HEIGHTS, MD – Police and Capitol Heights have arrested a man or a woman who are identified as the stepmother and father of a 5-year-old child for the death of that child. According to police, when they arrived at the couple’s Cumberland St home, the child was unresponsive. The child whose name is Delinois was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead a short time later.
This week, the Prince Georges County Police Department. Announced that they have arrested the parents of the child who identified as 44-year-old Pradel Delinois and 42-year-old Ornelie Charles.
“The suspects are the father and stepmother of the victim,” police said.
According to the police report released by the Prince George’s County Police Department, on August 18, , officers with the Capitol Heights Police Department responded to the 5100 block of Cumberland Street in the town of Capitol Heights for the report of an unresponsive child. Delinois was rushed to a hospital in Washington, DC, where she was pronounced dead a short time later.
“The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in the District of Columbia conducted an autopsy. That examination determined the victim’s cause of death to be blunt force trauma and the manner was ruled a homicide,” police said. “The preliminary investigation revealed the victim’s injuries occurred while in the care and custody of Delinois and Charles. Delinois is charged with child abuse resulting in death and neglect of a minor. Charles is charged with child abuse resulting in death, assault and neglect of a minor.”
