Police Investigate Child's Death At Group Home
POSTED: 10:44 am EDT September 13, 2004
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Police in Charlotte are looking into the death of a 12-year-old girl who was restrained for being unruly and violent at a group home for troubled children.
A police report says the girl stopped breathing after an employee at the Covenant Group Home restrained her.
Police declined to comment on the case Sunday except to say it remained a death investigation.
While it remains unclear what caused the girl's death, neighbors say they've worried about the group home on Snow Creek Lane for years and have tried to convince state officials to shut it down.
The home had attracted police calls before, neighbors said.
Neighbors say they have tracked more than 40 police calls to the home between 2000 and 2002, ranging from suicide attempts to fights to missing kids.
