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Midvale parents arrested after injured infant found dead at motel

Midvale • Police in a Salt Lake City suburb say an infant’s parents were arrested on suspicion of child neglect homicide after the 4-month-old boy was found dead at a motel with visible bruises and an abrasion or laceration.

Online court records don't list defense attorneys for 21-year-old Jose Ramirez and 20-year-old Jessica Lujan who could comment on the allegations.

Unified police say they went to the motel on an unrelated call Friday but were summoned to a different room in response to a report of a child not breathing.

A jail report says the child had multiple bruises as well as neck injury in which his bone structure was visible.