EAST POINT - The state Division of Family and Children Services is investigating the case of a 3-year-old hospitalized with head injuries after her grandmother claimed the girl almost drowned in a bathtub. <br>
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Family members and neighbors said they repeatedly told DFACS they believed Alexis Headspeth and her brother and sisters were being mistreated at the grandmother's home. They said the grandmother herself had asked the agency to place the children elsewhere, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported in Thursday editions. <br>
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Alexis was on life support Wednesday night at Hughes Spalding Pavilion at Grady Memorial Hospital. Doctors had little hope she would live, according to the newspaper. Her family planned to have the child taken off life support on Thursday. <br>
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Renee Huie, a DFACS spokeswoman, said the agency is assembling a chronology of contacts with the agency. She said she could not comment further. <br>
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Beverly Headspeth took her granddaughter to Hughes Spalding hospital about 9:30 p.m. Monday, according to East Point police. <br>
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According to East Point police, she told her 11-year-old son to bathe Alexis, heard him scream 30 minutes later, and found him ``trying to give her CPR by pressing on her stomach.'' <br>
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Police Lt. Russell Popham said hospital staff found ``Alexis suffered a massive blow to the head, that she wasn't underwater long at all.'' <br>
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Alexis, her 4-year-old brother and two sisters, 6 and 1, lived at the house, along with Headspeth, her two children, her boyfriend and three other men. <br>
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Headspeth, who was said to be staying with a sister, could not be reached for comment. The child's mother, who is serving a two-year prison term, was expected to arrive in Atlanta on Wednesday.
