hahahahaaaaa!!You beat me to it!!
I was just about to post a Giant Ant, too!!
This one!
Posted on 08/22/2008 7:23:42 AM PDT by devane617
EDINBURG -- A nearly half-ton woman charged with capital murder in the death of her 2-year-old nephew faces additional charges following a grand jury indictment Thursday.
Investigators suspect Mayra Lizbeth Rosales, 27, hit Eliseo Gonzalez Jr. at least two times on March 18, crushing the child's head. The bedridden woman told investigators at the time that she accidentally crushed Eliseo under her own weight while trying to pick him up.
In addition to the capital murder charge - which carries a death sentence upon conviction - she was indicted on one count of first-degree murder, a charge punishable by up to 99 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Rosales also was indicted on one count of injury to a child, a first-degree felony.
Prosecutors said the grand jury handed down the new charges after a full autopsy confirmed investigators' suspicions that the child died because someone struck him.
The formal indictments Thursday, however, revived problematic questions of how authorities will detain and prosecute a woman who is estimated to weigh close to 1,000 pounds and is unable to fit through a door to leave her home. As of Thursday evening, Rosales was not in custody.
Both Hidalgo County District Attorney Rene Guerra and Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño promised Thursday that Rosales would somehow face the charges but they remained mute about the details of that process.
Detaining her at the Hidalgo County Jail for her trial would be impossible, Treviño said.
"She would die," he said, because she needs full medical care.
Nevertheless, she will soon face arrest, he said.
Luis Garza, an Hidalgo County justice of the peace, formally charged Rosales with the death as she lay in bed at her La Joya home on March 26. She was immediately released on a personal recognizance bond, meaning she was let go without bail, based on her promise to return to court as required; the privilege is typically bestowed for minor offenses, but in this case was allowed due to her inability to leave home.
On March 18, Eliseo's mother, Jaime Rosales, left the toddler and two of his siblings with her sister. She broke an agreement she had recently signed with Child Protective Services promising not to leave the children in their aunt's care. CPS caseworkers discovered evidence of abuse a month before Eliseo's death.
The state placed Jaime Rosales's other three children - a set of infant twins and a 5-year-old - with a relative after the homicide, a CPS spokesman said at the time.
Jaime Rosales faces a first-degree felony charge of injury to a child for allegedly leaving Eliseo alone with his aunt.
The mother remained free as of Thursday evening. The grand jury recommended her bond be set at $100,000, and that her sister's bond be set at $150,000 cash surety for the woman's two latest charges.
Cruel and unusual punishment. Sounds about right!
susie
the 1000 pounder is the Aunt, not the mom. The kids were taken away from the mom because she had been ordered not to leave them with the Aunt because they already knew she was abusing the kids. Or at least that’s how I read it. But, since they sent the kids to “a relative” and not “with Mrs Rosales’ husband, the father” I will go out on a limb and assume that it’s Miss Rosales, and who knows where or whom the baby daddy (daddies?) is/are/were?
In anycase, why would anyone leave their small children with a bedridden person. If there is an emergency...or heck...if one of the kids needs even needs something...
LOL!
**Is she too big to fit through the doors of the Texas Death chamber?**
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Whoo-whee, Deputy Dawg !! A WHOPPER !!
If sooooo ... retrofit the doors to accommodate ...
Dude, that’s a heavy charge!
No way would I allow any one I know to eat that much, nor would I purchase the food. If they want it, GET off your DUFF and go get it yourself.
hahahahaaaaa!!You beat me to it!!
I was just about to post a Giant Ant, too!!
This one!
“My doctor says I swallow a lot of aggression...along with a bunch of cheeseburgers!” - Stripes.
http://lumiere.ens.fr/~alphapsy/blog/images/21701757_them_lg.jpg
...and since that’s a FRENCH link, hope they don’t change
the pic to something nasty now I’ve posted it here ...
...
It SURE is !! :^O
Used to be the other way around.............
THEM! One of my all-time favorite ‘50s sci-fi flicks!
Considering the weight of the “aunt” in question, though, you could also post a picture from “The Blob”.
Put her under house arrest on a diet of bread & water. In a couple of years, she’ll be thin enough to stand trial for her crime.
Fuzzy ants, cow killer ants, velvet ants, etc. aren’t really ants at all, but wingless wasps.........
A thousand pounds.
I simply cannot imagine anyone being that morbidly obese.
Gross.
Surprised she didn’t eat the kid. “Baby, the other other white meat.”
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