VIEW PARK-WINDSOR HILLS, Calif. (KABC) -- A father pleaded not guilty Monday to a felony count of child abuse resulting in death after his 1-year-old daughter was found unresponsive in a car in View Park.

The child, identified by the county Medical Examiner's office as Maeve Blakeley-Johnson, was found last Tuesday afternoon outside of a home in the 3800 Block of Chanson Drive. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Maeve's father, 40-year-old Edwin Wallace Johnson, was later arrested for involuntary manslaughter and child neglect.

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

Johnson was initially arrested late last Tuesday, then released on bond Wednesday before being re-arrested that day, according to

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