A caregiver contracted to watch a 16-year-old foster youth who died in a Baltimore hotel room told police that when she initially couldn’t wake up the girl, she thought it was because she was a “heavy sleeper,” according to a Baltimore police report released Friday.
Almost five hours later, the caregiver said she tried again, but found Kanaiyah Ward with “no visible signs of life,” according to the report. A medic pronounced the girl dead, and the medical examiner’s office subsequently ruled the death a suicide.
The report provides a few new details about the death, which had prompted outrage over the practice of housing foster youth in hotels and other inappropriate settings…