A Massachusetts lady was charged with the loss of life of her 3-year-old son who died the evening she went out ingesting and partying whereas ignoring frantic texts from her older baby who was babysitting.
Authorities say 25-year-old Jennifer Prudencio went out final Saturday evening, leaving her youngest son, Yael Guardado-Prudencio, within the care of her 7-year-old and 8-year-old kids at her residence. When she got here house on Sunday, Yael was lifeless.
Now, she faces involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment within the 3-year-old’s loss of life.
Prosecutors say Prudencio went out ingesting at a neighborhood bar on April 6 though she knew “one thing was critically medically improper” with Yael. But, she wouldn’t return house regardless of a number of texts her 8-year-old son despatched her via the evening concerning the baby’s worsening situation. A kind of texts even included a video of Yael to indicate his bodily state.
Prudencio messaged her son that she could be again that evening, however as an alternative, opted to remain the evening at her boyfriend’s home, prosecutors mentioned. She didn’t return house till 10 a.m. the subsequent morning. That’s when she found Yael was lifeless.
“Typically, the kid suffered from a seizure dysfunction and hemophilia and had been vomiting blood within the days previous to his loss of life,” Assistant District Legal professional Audrey Mark mentioned in courtroom, WCVB reported. “He had additionally fallen whereas having a seizure and had a bleeding wound to his face, which was not correctly therapeutic. The defendant had introduced the kid to hunt medical care on two events over that week.”
Yael had reportedly been sick for weeks earlier than he died.
NBC10 Boston reviews that Prudencio spoke with state police Sunday morning and indicated that she was conscious of her son’s situation and that she left him with no grownup supervision. She additionally advised authorities concerning the texts her oldest son despatched her the evening she stayed out.
Prudencio’s surviving kids are actually within the care of the state Division of Kids and Households.
District Legal professional Kevin Hayden known as the case a “tragedy past phrases.”
A protection legal professional mentioned Prudencio was “severely distraught” by her son’s loss of life. A choose set the mom’s bond at $100,000, greater than 10 occasions the quantity her lawyer requested.
She was additionally ordered to put on a GPS monitoring machine, though her legal professional mentioned there was no cause to imagine she would possibly flee.
She’ll be again in courtroom on Could 2 for a possible trigger listening to.
