{"id":526222,"date":"2026-11-11T16:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T16:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/526222\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T16:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T16:36:10","slug":"manslaughter-case-advances-against-woman-charged-in-childs-death-for-allegedly-ignoring-medical-advice-the-oakland-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/526222\/","title":{"rendered":"Manslaughter case advances against woman charged in child\u2019s death for allegedly ignoring medical advice \u2013 The Oakland Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The criminal case has advanced against a Southfield woman facing an involuntary manslaughter charge in connection with her child\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Latoya Washington is accused of disregarding medical advice for her 4-year-old son, Curtis Washington, after he suffered multiple seizures. The Oakland County Prosecutor\u2019s Office alleges the death resulted from gross negligence in Washington\u2019s failure to provide necessary medical care.<\/p>\n<p>Washington recently waived her preliminary exam in 48th District Court and the case was bound over to Oakland County Circuit Court for possible trial.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"mugshot\" width=\"227\" height=\"303\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/TOP-L-involuntarymanslaughter0625.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"2936623\" \/>Latoya Washington booking photo<\/p>\n<p>According to the Southfield Police Department, first responders called to a home in the French Quarter Apartments on Jan. 25 found the child unconscious and unresponsive. He was subsequently transported to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation showed the child had been hospitalized two days earlier after experiencing multiple seizures, was stabilized and prescribed medications to prevent further seizures, police said. Washington took her child home against medical advice and he experienced more seizures on Jan. 24 and 25, police said. Washington allegedly failed to give her child the prescribed medication to prevent the seizures and allegedly didn\u2019t provide prescribed rescue medication \u2014 which resulted in the child\u2019s death, officials allege.<\/p>\n<p>Washington is out of custody on a $20,000 personal bond \u2014 which requires no cash or surety to be posted \u2014 and GPS monitoring. She\u2019s scheduled to be arraigned on Nov. 18 before Oakland County Circuit Judge Nanci Grant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The criminal case has advanced against a Southfield woman facing an involuntary manslaughter charge in connection with her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[152996,200687,36818,152998,143,25791,145,144,5111],"class_list":["post-526222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-childs-death","tag-fatal-seizures","tag-involuntary-manslaughter","tag-latoya-washington","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county-circuit-court","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-southfield-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}