A 19-month-old Houston girl was burned to death by an oven this weekend. And it all happened because the toddler’s mother and her mom’s boyfriend left three children home alone, police said.
A juvenile court judge ordered the two other children and another one of their siblings, aged 3, 3 and 5, into foster homes Wednesday in a custody hearing a day after J’zyra Thompson died, Texas Child Protective Services spokeswoman Estella Olguin explained.
No one from J’zyra’s family showed up for the hearing, Olguin said. Efforts to contact her relatives were unsuccessful.
Police officers found J’zyra dead with severe burn marks when they arrived to the home in the Angel Ridge Apartments on Sterlingshire St. in northeast Houston at 12:30 Tuesday morning, according to the Houston Police Department.
Investigators believe the three children had been playing with the oven, and the officers discovered J’zyra’s burned body right next to it. Detectives consider the death accidental after questioning and releasing her mom and the boyfriend, the Houston Chronicle reported.
Police hadn’t filed any charges in the investigation Wednesday. J’zyra’s mother had left the children with her boyfriend when she went to work Monday night.
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