Infant dies at home day care in Grovetown; Investigation underway

Date: June 13, 2025

Columbia County authorities are investigating the death of a 4-month-old girl who was found unresponsive at a home day care on Fieldstone Drive in Grovetown on Thursday.

According to Maj. Steve Morris of the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, the woman operating the day care told deputies she laid the baby down to sleep on a bed in the master bedroom around 10:30 a.m. She said she discovered the child unresponsive approximately two hours later.

The woman called 911 and began performing CPR. The infant was transported to Doctors Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, Morris said.

Sheriff’s investigators interviewed the child’s parents at the hospital. An autopsy is scheduled at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation lab in Atlanta to determine the exact cause of death.

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Greg Rickabaugh is an award-winning crime reporter in the Augusta-Aiken area with experience writing for The Augusta Chronicle and serving as publisher of The Jail Report. He also owns AugustaCrime.com. Rickabaugh is a 1994 graduate of the University of South Carolina and has appeared on several crime documentaries on the Investigation Discovery channel. He is married with two daughters.

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