UPDATE: Stamford Police Await Autopsy of 8-Month-Old Baby

Update: 6:15 p.m., March 12

An autopsy was being performed Thursday evening on the eight-month-old baby girl who was not breathing after she was found wedged between a bed and wall in a Stamford hotel room.

The unidentified baby was found her 27-year-old mother just after 7 a.m. Wednesday in the room where she was staying with the baby’s 25-year-old father and their two-year-old son. The couple from Warren, OH was in town and scheduled to be guests on The Maury Show that is taped at the Rich Forum Theater on Atlantic Street with host Maury Povich.

Conklin said an autopsy was being performed Thursday evening at the Office of the Chief State Medical Examiner in Farmington.

The mother and both babies were asleep in one bed and the father in another, police said. “The baby fell into a very narrow crevice between the bed and wall. It looks like she suffocated,” said Stamford Police Capt. Richard Conklin. “It appears it was accidental,” Conklin added. He said that police aren’t releasing the parents’ identities at this time.

Efforts to revive the baby were performed by a hotel guest and then Stamford Emergency Medical Service who brought the baby to Stamford Hospital where she died.

According to The Advocate, a spokesman for NBCUniversal issued this statement: “On behalf of Maury and everyone at The Maury Show, we are deeply saddened by this profound tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family during this incredibly difficult time,” Janice Rosas said in an email.”

Original story: 5:21 p.m. March 11

Stamford Police are investigating the death of an eight-month-old baby girl who was found unresponsive by her mother early Wednesday.

Stamford Police say that at about 7:09 a.m. Wednesday, police and Stamford Emergency Medical Service were sent to the Stamford Plaza Hotel aft 2701Summer St., “ for an 8-month-old female who was unconscious and not breathing.”

Police said, “Upon arrival they found the 8-month-old baby not breathing and a resident at the hotel was performing CPR on the baby. EMS attempted to revive the baby for some time and the baby was transported to Stamford HX where she was pronounced deceased a short time later.”

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According to police, the unidentified baby’s parents said, “they were visiting Stamford from Ohio and that they were staying at the hotel overnight” and when the 27-year-old mother woke up “she found the baby on a pillow between the bed and the wall.”

Police said, “(The mother) relayed that the baby must of fallen off the bed sometime during the night and became lodged within the tight crevice. As she picked up the baby she noticed that the baby was not breathing and she called for help.”

Police say the baby’s 25-year-old father was sleeping in a second bed in the room and “was [awakened] by the mother’s screams and corroborated her account. The other son (who is two-years-old) was sleeping in the same bed as the mother was unharmed.”

The baby was taken to the Office of the State Medical Examiner for an autopsy that will be performed tomorrow. The state Department of Children and Families and The Child Guidance Center also responded to the hospital and assisted in the investigation.

Police said, “At this point it is too early in the investigation to give a manner of death. We are exploring all avenues in this tragic situation and will have more after we receive the results of the autopsy.”

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