Autopsy Finds Infant Died Of Child Abuse

An autopsy today attributed the death of a 3-month-old Far South Side girl to blunt head trauma due to child abuse.

Ianah Sherrod's father, Ivory Harmon, was charged with aggravated battery of a child. That charge remains and the case is still under investigation, said a spokesman for the Cook County state's attorney's office.

Ianah was brought to University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center by her father last Thursday afternoon, police said. He told officers who were called there that he had found her unresponsive in her crib.

The child, who showed signs of having been beaten, was resuscitated and placed on a ventilator, police said. She died Tuesday afternoon, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services said it has opened an investigation into the girl's death.

Harmon, of the 11300 block of South Forest Avenue, is being held at Cook County Jail without bail.

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