Criteria For Child Fatality Review

  • Sudden unexplained death, age less than one year
  • Unexplained/undetermined manner of death, age greater than one year
  • Children’s Division history of the decedent or other persons in the residence
  • Decedent custody (Children's Division, Juvenile Justice, Youth Services, etc.)
  • Possible inadequate supervision, care or neglect
  • Possible malnutrition or delay in seeking medical care
  • Possible suicide
  • Possible inflicted injury
  • Firearm injury
  • Injury not witnessed by person in charge at time of injury
  • Confinement (i.e. refrigerator, left unattended in vehicle)
  • Suspicious/criminal activity
  • Drowning
  • Suffocation or strangulation
  • Poisoning/chemical/drug ingestion
  • Severe unexplained injury
  • Pedestrian/skateboard/bicycle/driveway injury
  • Motor vehicle injury (includes ATVs, airplanes and trains)
  • Suspected sexual assault
  • Fire/burn injury
  • Prior unexplained/suspicious deaths in family/household
  • Animal-related deaths
  • Autopsy by certified child death pathologist
  • Panel discretion
  • Other suspicious findings (injuries such as electrocution, crush, or fall)