A Clinton mother has been arrested after her infant son was found dead at a Clinton hotel.
Clinton police were called to the Econo Lodge hotel on Clinton Center Drive where the baby was found dead. Â
Darla Luke, 34, has been charged with felony child neglect, according to the Clinton Police Department. City officials say that her other children were placed with a grandmother.
Amanda Jones, a spokesperson for the city of Clinton said in a release Wednesday that in June Luke was also charged with a misdemeanor of child neglect after officers responded to a domestic dispute.
The charge was related to living conditions and things going on at the house, Jones said.
“At some point between June 7 and June 21, the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services returned the children to her custody,” Jones said in a statement.
Jones also included that the baby was Luke’s ninth child.