Catarina Castro MoranA 21-year-old mother in Dalton, Georgia has been charged with second degree murder in connection with the death of her 17-month-old daughter who was found dead this morning in bed after an apparent severe illness.
Catarina Castro Moran is also charged with cruelty to children in the first degree, identity fraud, and making false statements to law enforcement officers.
A news release from the Dalton Police Department said that officers responded to a call about a dead child at a home in the 500 block of Whitener drive at 6 a.m. today.
Officers performed CPR on the child until paramedics arrived, but the victim had already died.
Bruce Frazier, a spokesman for the Dalton Police Department, said that by the time authorities had arrived, rigor mortis had already begun to set in, leading them to believe she had died some during the night before.