{"id":86288,"date":"2017-04-11T11:25:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T16:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=86288"},"modified":"2017-04-12T05:39:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T10:39:27","slug":"mother-also-arrested-in-death-of-young-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/04\/11\/mother-also-arrested-in-death-of-young-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother also arrested in death of toddler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent news<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A second person has been arrested on charges related to the death of a young Delphos boy.<\/p>\n<p>The child\u2019s mother, Valarie K. Dean, 24, formerly of Delphos,\u00a0is currently in the Van Wert County Correctional Facility on charges of involuntary manslaughter, a felony of the first degree, and child endangerment, a third-degree felony offense,\u00a0in connection with the death of 15-month-old Hayden Ridinger.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators working with the Lucas County Coroner\u2019s Office\u00a0revealed new information that was presented to the April session of the Van Wert County Grand Jury.<\/p>\n<p>The recent findings were presented to the grand jury and it\u00a0returned the criminal indictments described earlier.\u00a0Dean was arrested in Findlay at approximately 11 p.m. Thursday and held in the Hancock County Jail that evening on the felony warrants issued in Van Wert County.<\/p>\n<p>Dean was brought back to this county the next day after waiving extradition.\u00a0She is to appear Wednesday morning in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court for an\u00a0arraignment hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Dean\u2019s former boyfriend, Christopher Peters, 26, remains in jail on aggravated murder and other felony charges relating to the death of the child.\u00a0His trial is scheduled for September of this year.<\/p>\n<p>No more information is available as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent news A second person has been arrested on charges related to the death of a young Delphos boy. The child\u2019s mother, Valarie K. Dean, 24, formerly of Delphos,\u00a0is currently in the Van Wert County Correctional Facility on charges of involuntary manslaughter, a felony of the first degree, and child endangerment, a third-degree [&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-86288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 09:03:15","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\/86288","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=86288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}