Austerlitz couple accused of failing to get care for dying daughter
A husband and wife accused of failing to get medical attention for their 12-year-old daughter who died while suffering from kidney failure and pneumonia were arraigned on a criminal complaint filed by the Columbia County sheriff's office that charges them with manslaughter.
Steven Bennett, 58, and Heidi Tranberg-Bennett, 47, were charged with second-degree manslaughter Monday, nearly 11 months after their daughter, Evanna, died at Albany Medical Center Hospital after she was rushed to ambulance from the family's home on County Route 9, District Attorney Paul Czajka said.
The couple failed to seek medical care and disregarded the risk of death for their daughter "despite their awareness of her increasingly severe and apparent symptoms of pneumonia and end-stage renal disease including swelling of her legs and abdomen, weeping legs and increasing lethargy over a period of at least a week and as a result of their failure, the child died on Dec. 6, 2019," the complaint filed by Inv. William Dunspaugh states.
A husband and wife accused of failing to get medical attention for their 12-year-old daughter who died while suffering from kidney failure and pneumonia were arraigned on a criminal complaint filed by the Columbia County sheriff's office that charges them with manslaughter.
Steven Bennett, 58, and Heidi Tranberg-Bennett, 47, were charged with second-degree manslaughter Monday, nearly 11 months after their daughter, Evanna, died at Albany Medical Center Hospital after she was rushed to ambulance from the family's home on County Route 9, District Attorney Paul Czajka said.
The couple failed to seek medical care and disregarded the risk of death for their daughter "despite their awareness of her increasingly severe and apparent symptoms of pneumonia and end-stage renal disease including swelling of her legs and abdomen, weeping legs and increasing lethargy over a period of at least a week and as a result of their failure, the child died on Dec. 6, 2019," the complaint filed by Inv. William Dunspaugh states.