{"id":102068,"date":"2018-05-01T11:19:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=102068"},"modified":"2018-05-01T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:20:00","slug":"delphos-police-investigating-girls-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/05\/01\/delphos-police-investigating-girls-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Delphos police investigating girl&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DELPHOS &#8212; The Delphos Police Department is investigating the death of a 21-month-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>According to a news release from Police Chief Mark Slate, officers were dispatched at 12:12 a.m. Sunday to the 200 block of North Main Street on a report of an unresponsive child.<\/p>\n<p>When police officers and EMS personnel arrived, they found the young girl was not responsive and transported her to St. Rita&#8217;s Medical Center in Lima, where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Delphos police and Allen County Sheriff&#8217;s Office detectives are currently investigating the incident as a &#8220;suspicious death&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>No further information was released.<\/p>\n<p>The toddler&#8217;s death is the second in the past 18 months in Delphos. In November 2016, 15-month-old Hayden Ivan Ridinger was found beaten to death in an apartment at the Old Lincoln Inn complex on Lincoln Highway.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Peters was later convicted of three felony counts, including aggravated murder, in connection with the boy&#8217;s death, and is currently serving a life sentence in prison, without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent DELPHOS &#8212; The Delphos Police Department is investigating the death of a 21-month-old girl. According to a news release from Police Chief Mark Slate, officers were dispatched at 12:12 a.m. Sunday to the 200 block of North Main Street on a report of an unresponsive child. When police officers and EMS personnel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-11 09:07:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}