Already in 2021, autopsies have shown that both 1-year-old Fernanda Morales and 2-year-old Tevin TJ Jefferson suffered from blunt force trauma in unrelated incidents. In both of the Harris County cases, the children s mothers and their boyfriends have been arrested.
Maria Cosigua lost her 3-year-old son, Wilson, on New Year s Eve. The young mother said she went to work and left the toddler with her boyfriend, David Ixcayau. She said she got a call at work from someone asking her to come home because Wilson was sick, and when she arrived, he was unconscious. My baby had bruises all over his face, Cosigua said. His leg, his back had bruises. The worst thing is, he was laying down on a blanket, naked like a dog.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) The mother of a 13-month-old child who died Friday has been charged in relation to the death, and her boyfriend was also charged, authorities said.
The baby girl, identified as Fernanda Morales, was brought into an emergency care center in west Harris County on Thursday night where her mother and the boyfriend claimed she had fallen from a rocking horse and became lethargic, according to the Harris County Sheriff s Office. Medical personnel at the center said the baby had multiple blunt force injuries that were not consistent with the couple s claim, investigators said.
The child was flown to Texas Children s Hospital in the Texas Medical Center, where she died. Preliminary autopsy results confirmed what medical personnel found when the child was first brought in, according to a statement from the sheriff s office.
Mercy Morales, 22, and the mother’s boyfriend, Victor Almanza, 18, were both charged with injury to a child. (Harris County Sheriff s Office)
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – A couple was arrested for suspected child abuse after a 1-year-old died at a hospital Friday, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.
The child, Fernanda Morales, suffered multiple blunt force injuries, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said in a tweet.
Her mother, Mercy Morales, 22, and the mother’s boyfriend, Victor Almanza, 18, brought the child to Signature Care Emergency Center at approximately 11 p.m. Thursday, authorities said. Morales and Almanza claimed the child fell from her rocking horse and became lethargic. Medical personnel at the emergency center determined the child suffered multiple blunt force injuries, not consistent with “falling off a rocking horse”.