A South Carolina man who was accused of killing his girlfriend’s 8-month-old son in 2019 was arrested by Clayton County deputies Wednesday, authorities said.
Frederick Luma, 27, called police on June 19 to report that his girlfriend’s son wasn’t breathing, according to Beaufort police spokesman Capt. George Erdel. Paramedics sent the infant to the hospital, where he died.
Investigators interviewed Luma, who admitted to shaking the boy, Erdel said. He left the Beaufort area before arrest warrants were issued.
Luma has been on the run until Wednesday, when deputies arrested him in Clayton County around 4:30 p.m., authorities said. He is being held at the Clayton County jail and awaiting extradition back to Beaufort, South Carolina.
Anyone with information about this case is asked to contact Beaufort police at 843-322-7950. Tipsters can also remain anonymous by calling 843-322-7938.
In other news:
The pandemic has waged war on working women across the economic spectrum who have .
suffered more pandemic-related job losses than men, according to local and national reports.
Women-dominated fields such as retail, child care, leisure and hospitality have been especially hard hit.
With the start of the school year in September, 865,000 women left the workforce, said C. Nicole Mason, .
president and chief executive officer of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, and a lot of that had to do with caretaking responsibilities.
Black and Latina women are especially vulnerable to the economic impacts of the pandemic.
About 1 in 11 Black women and 1 in 12 Latinas remained unemployed even after women as a whole gained more than 60% of the jobs added to the economy in November.
“People are saying women are dropping out of the labor force. No. They are being pushed,” said Melissa Boteach, Vice President for Income Security and Child Care/Early Learning for the National Women’s Law Center.
President-elect Joe Biden has outlined an ambitious $7 trillion recovery plan that promises to address the gender and .
racial inequities that have left so many women vulnerable in the pandemic.
That plan includes providing aid to state and local governments to avoid layoffs, extending crisis unemployment insurance, and improving access to child and eldercare
