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The parents of a 6-week-old girl have been arrested on complaints of child neglect following the death of the Enid infant.The child’s aunt made a frantic call to 911 Wednesday pleading for help.“I need an ambulance. My little niece is not breathing,” the aunt said in the call.The aunt requested her name be withheld.The aunt tried CPR to save her, but Cadence Cannon later died at Bass Hospital.“She was a happy baby,” the aunt said. “She's bright-eyed and bushytailed.”The baby’s parents, Mark Cannon and Jennifer Cannon, allegedly admitted to officers that they were up drinking all night and got into an argument. The parents told investigators they left their home separately.Mark Cannon said he returned home, fed his daughter and put her to sleep in bed around sunrise Wednesday, according to police. He told officers he later checked on her and found her cold and not breathing.Investigators say that was six and a half hours after he put her to bed.Jennifer Cannon then arrived at the residence. Investigators said they determined when speaking with both Mark Cannon and Jennifer Cannon that they still appeared to be under the influence.Both parents were taken to the Garfield County Detention Center.“There was evidence that the neglect had taken course over a period of time,” said Lt. Eric Holtzclaw of the Enid Police Department.According to investigators, the baby was in poor health and had severe diaper rash.The baby's aunt said Jennifer Cannon had just taken Cadence to the doctor for treatment.“I don't know why they would be charging her for neglect because she didn’t do anything wrong,” the aunt said. “As far as I’m concerned, neither one of them did.”The infant's body was sent to the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Oklahoma City for an autopsy. A 1-year-old male child at the residence was taken into protective custody by the Department of Human Services, officers said.The investigation is still pending and more charges could be filed pending the autopsy report, along with any other findings that would support any additional charges.