ROCKDALE COUNTY, Ga. — A woman who was pregnant while on the run from police, accused of killing her 1-year-old son, returned to Georgia on Thursday.
Gloria Wright, 23, waived extradition after she was taken into custody Jan. 18 by U.S. Marshals task force in Rochester, New York, at the request of Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office. She faces charges of first-degree murder and first-degree cruelty to children in connection with the death of her child.
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When Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Mark Winne asked Wright if she killed her baby, she responded with a resounding “No!”
Rockdale County deputies responded to a 911 call Jan. 8 from a home on Hamlet Walk, where they found the child not breathing. The child was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Investigators spoke to Wright that day before a medical examiner determined a cause of death. When it was ruled the 1-year-old’s death a homicide due to blunt force trauma to the head, law enforcement officials issued arrest warrants for the mother, who had already fled.
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