A Fort Worth dentist has been arrested more than three months after a 4-year-old girl died following a dental procedure, according to the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n
Police said investigators arrested Dr. Chrishelle Hemphill, 48, on Tuesday, July 15, after obtaining a warrant charging her with injury to a child causing serious bodily injury.<\/p>\n
According to police, Fort Worth firefighters responded to a medical call on April 1 at a dental practice in the 5300 block of Sycamore School Road.<\/p>\n
Investigators said the child’s mother had brought the girl to the office earlier that morning for a procedure.<\/p>\n
Police said that after the procedure was completed, the child was unresponsive.<\/p>\n
The Fort Worth Fire Department transported the girl to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead, according to police.<\/p>\n
The department’s Crimes Against Children Unit launched an investigation into the child’s death.<\/p>\n
According to police, investigators determined an offense had occurred and identified the doctor who performed the procedure as the person responsible, leading to Hemphill’s arrest.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, July 15, an arrest warrant was issued for Hemphill, police said.<\/p>\n
Authorities said she was located at about 3:42 p.m. and taken into custody.<\/p>\n
Hemphill was arrested on a charge of injury to a child causing serious bodily injury.<\/p>\n
Police have not released additional details about the investigation or the circumstances surrounding the child’s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth dentist has been arrested more than three months after a 4-year-old girl died following a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-374854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}