TX, 7 Y.O. Bedridden Girl Found Dead Inside Home, *Mother arrested*; Bay City, 1 FEB 2020

[La Louve]

Mother arrested after bedridden girl, 7, found dead during welfare check

A mother has been arrested after a 7-year-old bedridden girl was found dead inside her home when police were performing a welfare check.

The incident occurred at about 2:30 p.m. on Friday when Bay City Police Officers in Bay City, Texas, were doing a welfare check at a residence in the area and found a 7-year-old girl who was bedridden due to medical conditions dead inside the home.

Two other children -- a 5-year-old and a 3-month-old -- were also on the premises along with the mother, 26-year-old Lauren Kay Dean, who was arrested by authorities after they discovered her dead daughter. It was unclear how long the 7-year-old had been deceased for.

The mother was charged with three second degree felony charges: abandonment, endangering a child and imminent danger bodily injury.

 

[Breezie]

She has a fb page. She was looking for a nurse, from 6am to 7pm, on weekdays, a month ago. It is possible that a nurse might have called in sick that day and she left the kids alone, for awhile, resulting in the abandonment charge?

 

[MimosaMornings]

She has a fb page. She was looking for a nurse, from 6am to 7pm, on weekdays, a month ago. It is possible that a nurse might have called in sick that day and she left the kids alone, for awhile, resulting in the abandonment charge?

All three home alone? With the youngest being 3 months old? Where the heck is the father (or father’s) of these children?
Maybe she had used all of her sick days and didn’t have FMLA set up to use?
Prayers

 

[ChatteringBirds]

How very sad.
1. Why was a welfare check performed?
2. Where is their father? Isn't he equally responsible for their care and well-being? (Not judging without facts.)
3. What's the mother's side of the story?

 

[MinnyPin]

From her fb she looks like she adored her little girl.

 

[Breezie]

Bay City, Texas Police Department

There is a post here with some interesting comments from people claiming to know her.

 

[Jsizzle]

It’s bizarre because she dotes on her daughter/kids according to FB. I wonder what happened here...

 

[Jsizzle]

Bay City, Texas Police Department

There is a post here with some interesting comments from people claiming to know her.

Interesting indeed

 

[wendybtn]

It’s bizarre because she dotes on her daughter/kids according to FB. I wonder what happened here...

That's the problem with social media. It is so easy to portray what ever it is you want others to believe of you, truth or otherwise.

 

[NotVeryBright]

That's the problem with social media. It is so easy to portray what ever it is you want others to believe of you, truth or otherwise.

I was about to say um how many cases can you say the same thing? Just even in the last month
I dont care what her "reasons or bs excuses" happen to be. 7, 5 and 3. That's what should have mattered, not a job, party, boy or girl toy just no f****** excuse.
I'm sure there's more to it yet at the end of the day she failed, horribly somewhere with that child, all of them.
Hopeful there's no bond. I dont even want to look at her case to find out. Just d*** all to h*** already.
Crying Lucky out

 

[borndem]

Bay City, Texas Police Department

There is a post here with some interesting comments from people claiming to know her.

I don't use FB -- what type of comments? Negative? Positive? Strange?
Thanks.

 

[Megnut]

Updating this old story

The mother of a 7-year-old bedridden child that was found dead left her children alone to go to a bar, according to court records.

Police say mom of child found dead left kids alone to go to bar

Dean invited an officer in to show them that the children were fine, but when the officer checked on Jordynn Barrera, she was deceased.

abc7chicago.com

Lauren Kay Dean pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the murder of Jordynn Barrera, 7, and was sentenced to life in prison, records show.

Bay City mother pleads guilty to 7-year-old bedridden daughter's death in 2020, court records show

Records show the mother of three invited an officer into her apartment in Bay City to show her children were OK. Instead, there was a disturbing discovery.

abc13.com