Parents arrested after 6-month-old baby dies at Merced home, police say

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- Two parents are present successful custody aft their six-month aged babe was recovered dormant successful Merced connected Monday night.

Agents from Child Protective Services called Merced constabulary aft uncovering the kid unresponsive astatine the family's location connected Kernland Avenue.

The archetypal serviceman connected country rapidly started CPR but the babe was already dead.

Albert Brincat-Desales and Alina Beltran are each facing a complaint of kid endangerment resulting successful death.

"We tried to enactment with some big parents who were connected country to effort to fig retired what had happened, we didn't get overmuch cooperation. Both advised they were asleep, did not cognize what happened to the baby," said Merced Police Cpt. Joey Perez.

Police person not said wherefore CPS was visiting the house, but it was not their archetypal clip there.

"It was evident that CPS has been determination before, however galore times successful the past of that residence pertaining to CPS, I don't know," said Perez.

Police accidental six different children, ages 7 and younger, were surviving astatine the location astatine the time, and are present cardinal witnesses to the investigation.

"We besides request to behaviour immoderate specialized interviews with the six different children that were taken into protective custody to overgarment a amended representation of what really happened," Perez explained.

Neighbors accidental they are stunned and heartbroken, and told america the household was quiescent and kept to themselves.

They said the imaginable transgression that happened down this closed doorway - unimaginable.

Detectives are waiting for the results from the baby's autopsy.

Once that comes back, Brincat-Desales and Beltran could look much charges, including murder.

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