Virginia Gonzales is dealing with fees together with damage to a baby inflicting critical damage following her arrest again in Could, after her 7-year-old daughter was discovered “locked in a closet and ravenous,” per police.

It was solely after her arrest that police discovered Gonzales had by no means reported the disappearance of one other baby, a nine-year-old lady who’s been lacking since December 2017.

Gonzales was in court docket for a bond listening to this week, with KXAN reporting on what went down inside.

The kid’s grandmother known as police when she went to the house and located the 7-year-old lady confined to a closet.

The closet measured lower than 5-feet by 2-feet, per court docket filings, although with different objects additionally in there, they consider her residing house was roughly 3 toes by 1 foot, 10 inches. There was no gentle or air flow. NBC Information experiences it was barricaded by 75-pound containers in entrance of it.

In line with court docket paperwork, the lady was dirty and weighed simply 29 kilos when she was rescued. Medical employees decided that she suffered “average to extreme cerebral atrophy” resulting in everlasting mind harm because of extended malnutrition and hunger. “She’s going to by no means get well,” the affidavit states.

The six different youngsters in the home, ranging in age from 2 to 14, instructed their grandmother, per court docket paperwork, that they had been ordered to lock their sister within the closet as a result of she had bladder management points, was “at all times stepping into stuff,” and consuming issues she was “not presupposed to.”

A ten-year-old brother mentioned he was instructed to scrub the closet as a result of she would defecate and urinate in there, per KVUE. He mentioned the lady was solely allowed to eat a single scorching canine or corndog a day and half a cup of water.

The opposite six youngsters “appeared bodily wholesome,” in keeping with Austin Police Detective Russell Constable at a information convention on Tuesday. Investigators reported that the house’s fridge, freezer, and pantry had been all effectively stocked with meals.

In the course of the listening to, Gonzales reportedly did not deny her daughter had been put in a closet — however pushed again at allegations she was there for presumably days or even weeks.

“I instructed them to not let her out of the [bed]room however not the closet,” Gonzales mentioned she instructed her different youngsters as she testified. “We might catch her within the restroom doing one thing unhealthy. It was simpler for [my sons] to observe her that manner.”

A police detective testified that textual content messages between Gonzales and one in every of her youngsters learn, “Clear the closet after which throw her again in.” Describing the kid’s situation, the detective additionally mentioned that “the fats in her cheeks was nonexistent,” claiming, “Her physique had used these shops to maintain itself.”

Gonzales, nevertheless, insisted she “had enough meals for everybody within the dwelling” — earlier than saying, “I do not dispute that I used to be within the fallacious. I do know what I’ve accomplished was fallacious. I wish to struggle for my youngsters. I am able to do no matter I have to preserve my youngsters in my life.”

As authorities had been initially investigating the closet incident, they found Gonzales had one other daughter, Ava, who has been lacking since 2017 — however whose disappearance was by no means reported to authorities. The lady can be 9 now.

In line with ABC affiliate KVUE, police state that Virginia has given “conflicting info to many alternative relations” concerning Ava’s whereabouts, nor have authorities been capable of positively determine the lacking lady’s father.

In the course of the listening to this week, Gonzales reportedly mentioned a person named “Saul Jimenez” took Ava from her when she was residing out of her automobile. That man, she allegedly instructed police, was the lady’s father … however she claimed he was deported to Mexico in 2018, earlier than Jimenez’s sister took Ava together with her to Mexico as effectively.

APD Lacking Individuals & Chilly Instances detective Amanda Lewis mentioned they had been dealing with the disappearance “as a murder investigation,” including they do not “have any proof that she is alive.” Gonzales, in court docket, reportedly testified that she didn’t kill her daughter.

Her bond was then raised to $250,000, earlier than Gonzales pled not responsible to the fees. Her trial was set for January 2016.

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