Connecticut police ID baby found dead in bathtub over the weekend

A 7-month-old Connecticut babe recovered dormant successful a bathtub implicit the play was publically identified Wednesday by police.

Cops confirmed Angel Rodriguez was the lad who died Sunday astatine a infirmary successful New Haven, the New Haven Register reported.

Rodriguez’s mother, Elizabeth Portocarrero, told the insubstantial she was not astatine location erstwhile exigency responders arrived astatine the East Haven home Sunday night.

“I wasn’t there. I was working,” Portocarrero told the Register. “I’m the superior supplier for the children. Dad doesn’t work, truthful helium watches the kids.”

Portocarrero said she and Angel’s begetter had separated but were co-parenting their 2 children, according to the Register. Angel’s older brother, 3-year-old Alexander Rodriguez, was playing with him successful the bathtub, Portocarrero said.

East Haven constabulary antecedently said they did not judge determination was foul play successful the case but would proceed investigating.

Cops were called to the location successful East Haven astir 9 p.m. Sunday, aft aesculapian teams had already responded to an alert astir an unresponsive child, authorities said. Angel was rushed to Yale New Haven Hospital, wherever helium was pronounced dead.

Officials antecedently said Angel spent the bulk of his clip astatine Portocarrero’s location successful Ansonia, on the westbound broadside of New Haven.

Portocarrero told the New Haven Register she didn’t cognize precisely what happened that led to Angel’s death. The boy’s begetter has not spoken publicly.

“We are moving hard to found the facts, and volition stock further accusation erstwhile we are successful a presumption to bash so,” East Haven constabulary serviceman Joseph Murgo told the Register. “As you tin imagine, this has been an incredibly hard clip for everyone involved.”