At 6:20 p.m. on Super Bowl Sunday, an Arizona toddler was pronounced dead in an emergency room.
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At 11:52 p.m., the boy was found breathing in a hospital morgue.
“The child ultimately survived and has been released from the hospital,” the Gilbert Police Department said in a statement.
But the department has also recommended to the county attorney that his parents be charged with child abuse.
Meanwhile, Mercy Gilbert Medical Center confirmed it had conducted its own internal investigation into what it called a “heartbreaking situation.”.
“As long as there are no objections, I’d like to call time of death,” Toosi said, according to the report. »