A sheriff’s deputy in Maryland was checking on the welfare of the mother when he discovered the toddler on the swing set had been dead for hours. The mother is undergoing a medical evaluation, authorities said.
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An autopsy of a 3-year-old found dead as his mother pushed him on a swing has not determined the boy's death, the Associated Press reported.
The boy's 24-year-old mother remained hospitalized on Monday, authorities told the AP, and investigation into how the child died would also continue.
A sheriff's deputy found the mother Friday at a Maryland park pushing her dead 3-year-old on the swing, possibly for hours.
Authorities believe the toddler had been deceased for several hours when the deputy found her, and that the mother may have been pushing him on the swing at Wills Memorial Park in La Plata, Maryland, since the previous day.
"She was able to answer some questions for us," Diane Richardson, a spokesperson for the Charles County Sheriff's Office, told BuzzFeed News Friday.
Deputies were called at 7 a.m. when a resident near the park said the woman had been pushing the child for hours. The mother, Richardson said, had been seen near the same swing set, pushing the boy, since the previous day.
"She was seen there (yesterday), and we don't know if she ever left," Richardson said.
The deputy wanted to start performing CPR, but realized the child had been dead for several hours.
"It was really difficult for the officer to encounter the situation," Richardson said.
There were no obvious signs of trauma on the child, who was taken to the medical examiner to determine a cause of death.
The mother was also taken to a nearby hospital to be evaluated, Richardson said.
She talked briefly with authorities, Richardson said, but declined to offer details.
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