Dad: Police question wife after baby hospitalized with life-threatening condition

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — JSO detectives are trying to figure out what sent a 1-month-old baby girl to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.

For more than five hours, detectives were seen going in and out of an apartment in Stonemont Village on Stonemont Street.

“Somebody carrying the baby girl, and put her in the ambulance,” Vunz Nuam, a neighbor, said.

She said the baby was taken to the hospital Friday night. “I cried because the baby is close and I cried,” Nuam said.

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Police say when the baby’s condition worsened, JSO’s homicide unit was called in to investigate.

“We treat them all with a lot of caution when it involved a child in terms of trying to make sure we know exactly what took place so that we can make a determination if there is foul play,"  Sgt. Robert John, JSO homicide unit, said. "Right now, at this point it’s just preliminary, we are just starting to get into it.”

Action News Jax encountered the baby’s father leaving the apartment. When we asked him what happened, he said he didn't know what happened at the time.

He said his wife called for help Friday night and that they went to the hospital.

The emergency call was made after something went terribly wrong. His wife is being questioned by police, he said.

A neighbor upstairs told Action News Jax that she would hear the baby crying all the time.

Investigators said they were talking to family members who were cooperating. The baby’s father says it was an accident.

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