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For: The Opinion Updated 24 May 2022, 13: 58 pm EDT
A woman and her boyfriend were arrested by the Houston police, after a long investigation for the death on last year of a minor who showed obvious signs of torture and starvation.
Soledad Mendoza de 29 years old and Rubén Moreno of the same age, were arrested by the Houston police accused of the death of Melanie Mendoza, daughter of the woman.
The unfortunate event occurred at the end of last year, when the doctors at the Memorial Hermann-Memorial City Center notified the authorities of the death of an 8-year-old girl who presented multiple blows, fractures and weighed 29 pounds (13 kg).
The body Melanie Mendoza’s dead body was transferred to the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, to perform an autopsy and define the reasons for her death. As a result of these tests it was discovered that the girl had severe bruises all over her body, had broken ribs that were never treated, had internal bleeding from the traumas he had suffered.
Likewise, the The forensic doctor was able to detect that the minor had suffered from starvation and her bones were not fully developed
for his age. With these results, the death of Melanie Mendoza was declared a homicide.
The surviving twin sister had a weight of 16. 4 pounds (04.9kg) when he arrived at the hospital he was still in diapers, had bone fractures that they had not been treated , low body mass all their blows were evidence of mistreatment and physical abuse.
When the authorities asked the girl who survived, already when she was stabilized and healed, regarding the origin of the blows and the death of her little sister, the little girl said: “My mother killed her”, reported the FOX news 13.
The girl revealed that her mother and her boyfriend beat them frequently, she told him that she would put them in the closet and then in a garbage bag. The girl remembered that her mother put her head in a bag and told her: “It’s because you’re ugly and I don’t love you”, detailed KPRC.
After the investigation of the police and the evidence that found, six months later they were arrested Soledad Mendoza and Rubén Moreno charged with capital murder of a child under 10 years, for the death of Melanie Mendoza and two counts of injury to a child, related to the twin sister.
Soledad Mendoza has to appear in court next 23 of June, with a Bail set by the judge of $3 million dollars.
Rubén Moreno, Soledad’s partner, did not set bail for Melanie’s murder, but for the other charges and that bail is $1 million dollarss and he will have to appear in court next 26 May.
In the house of the accused couple, in addition to the twins, had Soledad’s daughters, two other children aged 7 and 12 years, who were in good health, children of Rubén Mendoza. In addition, the defendants had a baby of theirs, which was also delivered to an adoption home
in good health.
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