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Baby Critical after Found Unresponsive at Day Care Center

November 22, 2017 By Dick Cook and News Channel 9 1 Comment

According to our friends at Newschannel9, A 4-month-old baby boy is in critical condition and the state of Tennessee is investigating an East Ridge day care where workers found the child unresponsive.

An East Ridge Police report says workers at the Child Care Network on Bennett Road found the infant asleep on the floor on his stomach on November 9th.

Three minutes later, the report says the workers went back to check on him and found him unresponsive, and performed CPR.

As of Wednesday, a hospital spokesperson says the 4-month-old is in critical condition at Children’s Hospital.

The State Department of Human Services says they are investigating the incident and the daycare workers involved are now on a safety plan.

According to state licensing rules, babies 12-months-old and younger should be placed in a crib, on their backs, to sleep.

Employees at the day care say they couldn’t talk about what happened, and would pass on our crew’s information to someone who would be able to comment. We are still waiting to hear back from them.

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About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.

About News Channel 9

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