Texas mom gets life for murder of bedridden daughter she left alone to go party

Apart from homicide, Lauren Kay Dean was additionally sentenced to an extra 20 years for 2 counts of abandonment and endangering a toddler. 
Bay Metropolis, Texas Police Division

A Texas mother pleaded responsible to capital homicide within the demise of her 7-year-old bedridden daughter whom she allegedly left residence alone with youthful siblings to go partying greater than two years in the past. 

Lauren Kay Dean pleaded responsible to homicide on Wednesday and was sentenced to life in jail in connection to the demise of her 7-year-old daughter, Jordynn Barrera, KTRK reported. 

Dean was additionally sentenced to an extra 20 years for 2 counts of abandonment and endangering a toddler. 

In response to the legal grievance, Dean had left her three youngsters, together with the 7-year-old woman who was bedridden on account of medical circumstances, residence alone in order that she may go to close by Shade’s Bar. 

Police in Bay Metropolis, positioned about 80 miles southwest of Houston, responded to conduct a welfare test on the household’s condominium at roughly 2:36 p.m. on Jan. 31, 2020. 

The grievance says the then-26-year-old Dean had returned residence by then and invited legislation enforcement inside to point out that her youngsters have been OK. However upon coming into the condominium, officers positioned a deceased woman.

Two different siblings, a 5-year-old and a 3-month-old, have been additionally residing on the residence and faraway from the house. Dean was initially booked into Matagorda County Jail on three separate, second-degree felony expenses of the abandonment and endangerment of a kid, putting them in imminent hazard of bodily damage. The mom was later charged with capital homicide of an individual underneath the age of 10.

KTRK reported that Barrera, who was recognized with Down syndrome and cerebral palsy and was non-communicative, required a feeding tube and round the clock care. 

Prosecutors mentioned the woman died as a result of her mom left her residence to go partying. The Bay Metropolis Tribune reported that Dean pleaded responsible to keep away from trial and the opportunity of the demise penalty.