12/27/2007
Police investigating East Windsor infant's death
By:Kory Loucks , Journal Inquirer
EAST WINDSOR - Police are investigating the suspicious death of a 3-month-old infant girl found Wednesday in an apartment at Mill Pond Village.
At 8:51 a.m. police responded to a 911 call to apartment T16 at 59 Mill Pond Road in the Broad Brook section of town, according to police.
Paramedics transported the infant to Connecticut Children's Medical Center, where the infant was pronounced dead, police said.
The father, Matt Orefice, was not in the apartment when police arrived, police said, but a 10-year-old girl was there with an 8-year-old boy, along with the paternal grandmother and the grandmother's boyfriend.
"The 10-year-old girl discovered the baby and told the adult female, who in turn called 911," Police Chief Edward J. DeMarco Jr. said today.
Police detectives and Connecticut State Police are investigating the incident as a suspicious death, according to police.
"There are some suspicious factors at the site which investigators are looking into," DeMarco said. However, he added: "No blood or blunt force trauma was found at the scene." An autopsy is scheduled today, police said.
DeMarco said Orefice, was interviewed by police late Wednesday.
DeMarco said the Orefice and the infant's mother live separately.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the East Windsor Police Department's Detective Division, 292-8240.
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