BRYAN VASQUEZ (courtesy of New Orleans Police Department)
The mother of Bryan Vasquez, the 12-year-old non-verbal autistic boy found dead in a lagoon last month 12 days after disappearing from his home has been arrested. New Orleans Police Deputy Superintendent Hans Ganthier says 34-year-old Hilda Vasquez was arrested yesterday.
“Miss Vasquez will be charged with second-degree cruelty to a juvenile and negligent homicide,” Ganthier said.
Another deputy superintendent, Nicholas Gernon, says this is not the first time Hilda had been negligent or abusive towards her son.
“There has been a pattern of both negligence and abuse over Bryan’s 12 years. And so we believe that we can prove that, that pattern of negligence and abuse, led to a severe injury or undue pain and suffering on his part,” Gernon said.
In fact, Gernon says Hilda was convicted of abusing Bryan when he was just three months old.
“She committed a skull fracture, broken legs, and collapsed lung. At that point, he was removed from the home. And then at some point, subsequent to that, DCFS returned him back to the home,” Geron explained.
Gernon would not go into detail as to the circumstances of DCFS returning Bryan to the home or when it happened. Hilda Vasquez was booked into the Orleans Parish Jail.
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