The father of a year-old girl who was pronounced dead after being found unresponsive in a vehicle in the unincorporated View Park community near South Los Angeles pleaded not guilty Monday to a felony count of child abuse resulting in death.

The charge against Edwin Wallace Johnson, 40, of View Park, stems from the death last Tuesday of the girl, who was identified by the county Medical Examiner’s office as Maeve Blakeley-Johnson.

The determination of the cause of the girl’s death has been deferred, according to records from the Medical Examiner’s office.

Deputies responded about 3:10 p.m. last Tuesday to the 300 block of Chanson Drive, north of Slauson Avenue and east of Crenshaw Boulevard, after receiving a report of a child not breathing, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s

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