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.
I feel sorry in a way, but people should take care of themselves. I wonder if the LIBS would say -- we got to ban fast foods! (RightWingTen and his buddies eat fast foods, but they are always outside. Be active and you will be healthy.)
Any living things over 500 pounds is normally considered livestock in Texas.
Recipe:
Take Texas chainsaw in one hand.
Crank with other hand.
Cut into choice of 4 - 250#, 5 - 200#, or 10 - 100# pieces.
Roast at 250 degrees for 500 hours.
Serves a bunch.
Generally, a whole lot of eating and increasingly less activity. Of course, we can't rule out some sort of untreated medical condition, but that isn't usually the case. (There are generally some significant emotional issues that contribute to overeating on that scale, however.)
I saw an ant like that at church camp about thirty years ago. We had a home movie camera, so we filmed it and narrated something about a monster ant attacking our camp. Good times.
Put it on youtube!
“Yes, perhaps morbidly obese, but NOT 1000 lbs!”
I recently saw a story about an enormously obese man and when he was weighed on the show he was “down to” 712 pounds. The doctor asked him what was the last time he had seen the lower end of 700 pounds. His answer? 6th grade!!!
Somebody who can weigh 700 pounds at age 12 is simply not normal. There are some terrible health and metabolism issues there that you and I can’t even imagine.
Some of these folks also have some wacky brain chemistry. There are people who the more they eat the more their brain tells them they’re hungry. They’ve eaten a gigantic meal, and yet they feel like they haven’t eaten in days. This is NOT just a simple matter of self-control, although they do have to work on that. These people can’t stop eating completely, of course, and yet every time they eat something that triggers a need to eat more.
Yes, most overweight people simply need to change their habits and learn self-control (I could stand to lose 25-30 pounds myself and I could do it with better habits) but there are a small percentage of folks with serious problems.
Made my day.......!!
Clearly there is a serious problem with something if they can get to be 1000 lbs.
susie
LOL. Now that’s what I’m talking about!
The only time I ever put 1000 pounds (of sand) in the bed of my 1997 Ranger, it noticably changed the handling. You’d need a semi to drag her butt to jail.
Joke if you must, but an innocent baby is dead.
The mother is criminally neglegent as far as I'm concerned. I don't care if you are my brother od sister, I am going to knock you out if you mess with my kids.
Excuse me. Did I joke about the child’s death? My comment was about executing this person if they are found guilty. And since this happened in Texas, there is a good chance of that happening.
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