TX 12-year-old Texas girl dies after parents used smoothies to treat life-threatening injuries

[Maat99]

I’m sorry but I don’t believe this girl did anything to herself. The look on that woman’s face in her mugshot says it all IMO.

 

[ilovewings]

I have to say there are some people that really should not have children. These two represent that idea.

 

[cujenn81]

I think you are correct. The mother found her.
During a media briefing on Aug. 15, Soward said that Balbaneda explained how the injuries happened but he didn’t want to share those details until the sheriff’s office had confirmed her cause of death.

“We still have a little bit of doubt; we need to figure that out,” Soward said.

I think the living conditions were not quite like the sheriffs was quoted, , “Sipps was kept on a homemade bedding area in an environment that was not kept to a reasonable standard of cleanliness.” I think that was a nice way of saying the house was a pig pen.

The Mother and "step father" didn't cause the injuries but didn't seek the medical treatment she obviously needed.
“We have determined that upon being found by her mother, Sipps was still alive, although in dire need of immediate medical treatment,” the sheriff’s office stated in an Aug. 16 updated press release.

Regardless of how the injuries occurred, Soward said the parents “failed to act.”

“You still have a duty to provide medical care for a 12-year-old child,” he said.

Everything we know about the investigation into 12-year-old girl’s death, parents’ arrest in Atascosa County

The 12-year-old Miranda Sipps was pronounced dead on Monday, and her mother and stepfather are charged in connection with her death, according to the Atascosa County Sheriff’s Office.

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This makes no sense to me. They failed to call 911 for FOUR days because they didn’t want LE to see the unkept conditions of the home? That’s a ridiculous reason, in and of itself, but… why wouldn’t they have hurried to correct the undesirable conditions of the home and then call for help. Obviously, that’s not acceptable behavior either — but it would have been better than waiting until your child has stopped breathing to call!

 

[tlcya]

I do not understand all the mystery around HOW she came to be injured? The injury ended up being fatal, WHY are they not telling us what it was?

If the parents aren't responsible for causing it, why is it such a secret?

 

[Rikissa]

I do not understand all the mystery around HOW she came to be injured? The injury ended up being fatal, WHY are they not telling us what it was?

If the parents aren't responsible for causing it, why is it such a secret?

Could other children (family or non-family) been involved in whatever had caused her injury?

 

[LinasK]

Neck trauma sounds like an attack and someone choked her or fractured/broke her neck ?
A twelve year old girl.
Omo.

It's very mysterious why the police won't come out with the cause of death, but it sure sounds like child abuse to me.

 

[mickey2942]

So, they don't get medical attention for their daughter because the house is messy? Unfortunately, I know extreme hoarders that would probably rationalize that. Remember, hoarding is a mental illness. We are not talking about people who have a full deck of playing cards here.

 

[sasha17]

So, they don't get medical attention for their daughter because the house is messy? Unfortunately, I know extreme hoarders that would probably rationalize that. Remember, hoarding is a mental illness. We are not talking about people who have a full deck of playing cards here.

If it was just a matter of the house being messy, even if it was an awful hoarder situation, why not just put the child in the car and drive her to the hospital the moment the injury happened? They have a car as mentioned in this article, so it wasn't for lack of transportation: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article291049920.html

"The night of Aug. 12, Balbaneda was driving with her daughter when she went into respiratory distress, so the mother called 911, according to the news release. Dispatchers instructed Balbaneda to meet first responders at a designated spot, according to deputies. The girl was “alive but unconscious” when she was taken to the hospital, Soward said."

There's something more going on here than just a messy house they didn't want first responders to see.

 

[everyoneblooms]

it sounds almost like they think she tried to commit suicide (injuries around the neck) but if you found your daughter trying to hang herself, wouldn't you get her IMMEDIATE help instead of smoothies...