Deputies charged a Greenville County mother with homicide by child abuse after the death of her 1-year-old.
Greenville County Deputies say Georgia Ann Sprouse was charged with homicide by child abuse, aiding and abetting and one count of accessory after the fact to felony.
The Sheriff’s Office says they arrested her Wednesday, at about 12:30 p.m.
They say officers with the US Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force and the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office arrested her at an address on Pond View Drive in Laurens County.
Deputies say Sprouse is in custody at the Greenville County Detention Center where, after an arraignment was held, she was given no bond.
Sprouse’s daughter died on May 27 at the hospital.
On May 25, deputies responded to 1932 Fews Chapel Road in Greer after EMS was called out on a report of a child not breathing.
Deputies said the child’s mother told them the baby started choking after drinking tea from a glass. She told deputies she performed CPR and called 911.
An autopsy was performed May 28.
Investigators said at the time that the child died from suffocation.
James Allen Johnson, who is not the biological father of the child, was arrested and charged on June 3.
He is being held in the Greenville County Detention Center without bond.
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