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Muriel Schwenck

Beloved Curmudgeon
https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexic...ties-search-for-missing-1-year-old/1684821809
I started to post this in the Missing forum, but it looks more like a fatal crime.
3 January 2019
Authorities are asking for the public's help in finding a missing 1-year-old girl.

The child, Anastazia Zuber, was last spoken of on December 18, 2018, when the child's father, DJ Zuber told his mother, Eva, that the child had drowned in a bathtub.

Police weren't called and it is unknown if the girl is alive or endangered.

DJ Zuber and the child's mother, Monique Romero were last known to have Anastazia with them along with two other children named Athena and David Zuber III,


The couple was last seen in Farmington driving an unknown vehicle.

Albuquerque Police have spoken to various relatives and Anastazia's location remains unknown.

Anyone with information related to the location of Anastazia Zuber is asked to call APD at 242-2677.
 
I'm quite confused on this one...he said he kid drowned, but now maybe they are all on the run?
 
The body of a missing 1-year-old girl has been found after tracking down her parents, according to the Albuquerque Police Department.

Police found the parents, David J. Zuber and Monique Romero, at an Albuquerque home Friday morning.
They executed several search warrants, and discovered the body of Anastazia Zuber at another northeast Albuquerque home.

Two other children were also found with the parents, and are now safely in the custody of CYFD.
https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-new...R7chaoE0NJZDvKrkxWz8U0U#.XC_3O9Y4e4s.facebook
 
Judge Daniel Gallegos denied prosecutors' request to keep the mother of a 1-year-old girl, who police say was left in a bathtub to drown and then buried in a yard, behind bars.

In court Wednesday, Monique Romero showed no emotion as prosecutors detailed the crime she's accused of committing.

She was arrested last week after police found the body of her 1-year-old daughter, Anastazia Zuber, buried in the backyard of a relative's home.

Police say Romero and the father, David Zuber, had been telling family members since mid-December that the baby drowned in a bathtub.

In court Wednesday, an Albuquerque Police detective said when he interviewed Romero, she told him she left Anastazia and her 2-year-old sister in the tub of their apartment unattended while she went downstairs to look for a job on her phone.

"She went into the bathroom and found A.Z. laying face down in the bathtub, blue, and what she described as rubber," said Detective Gabe Candelaria.

He also said there was a syringe and a pipe with meth in it found inside the family's apartment.

The state then mentioned that Romero was investigated by CYFD two years ago when her 2-year-old child was born addicted to drugs.

David Zuber, who has also been arrested for the death told the mother he would, "take care of it."

Candelaria said the couple's 3-month-old baby had bruises on his body when the family was finally located.

While the judge released Romero, he is ordering drug testing and no contact with minors. However, he is allowing contact with her children, with CYFD presence.
https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerq...Hi-VNmDD5-rpToYqWIppV-yLXAT-xm5IyC2iYOCk_53zA
 
https://www.kcra.com/article/man-sa...kyard-but-instead-it-was-a-dead-baby/25864241
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An Albuquerque man says his landscaper asked to bury his dead cat in the man's backyard, but it was really the body of the landscaper's 1-year-old daughter.

"He pulled the weeds, mows the yard, he takes care of the bushes of everything and lately he's been acting a little strange. We noticed that before (the) Christmas holiday,” said Thurman Dunn, who lives in the home where the body was found.

Dunn said he and most of his roommates went on vacation at the end of December.

He says while they were gone, their landscaper, David Zuber, called them for a favor.

"It was a cat that had died, one of his cats, and he needed to bury it," Dunn said.

Dunn says it wasn't a strange favor for Zuber to ask because they use their backyard as a pet cemetery.

"Basically, this is where we have buried all of our dogs that have passed away," said Dunn.

But when they got back at the beginning of January, Dunn says they got a knock on their door.

"Homeland Security, investigation teams, dig sites, everybody's here," said Dunn.

Albuquerque police say Zuber and his girlfriend, Monique Romero, were arrested last week and charged with child abuse resulting in death after the body of their 1-year-old daughter, Anastazia Romero, was discovered buried in Dunn's backyard.

"It was buried in the backyard underneath the remains of a dead dog. The body was inside two layers of a white, plastic trash bag inside of a black duffel bag," said Dunn.
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@Muriel Schwenck @Satanica
It's been two months since police arrested parents Monique Romero and David Zuber II after the couple's 1-year old daughter died in their family bathtub and Zuber buried the body in a backyard.

The Children, Youth and Families Department put the couple's other two children in a foster home, and the 6-month-old boy died Thursday in the foster parent's custody.

It's unclear how the child died, but a spokesman with the Albuquerque Police Department said he was unresponsive and was transported to the hospital.

We talked to that child's grandfather, David Zuber III, over the phone.

"This is tragic. I'm still trying to wrap my head around it, but it's unreal," said the child's grandfather.

The grandfather said his son, Zuber II, and Romero typically visit their children twice a week, but he said they knew something was off last week when their visits were canceled for the first time.

"He missed the last one or two visits and then they canceled the doctor appointment on Wednesday and then Thursday we got the news we got," said the child's grandfather.

He said CYFD hasn't allowed the family to see the infant's body.

During a private meeting with CYFD this morning, the family asked that their final child, who is still living in a foster home, be returned to her parents.

"What makes them any safer with CYFD, apparently? Oh, my goodness, so they were safer there than being with their parents? I think not," said the child's grandfather.

Both Romero and Zuber II were released from jail after charges against them for the death of their daughter were placed on hold.
 
A 1-year-old Albuquerque girl who was found dead, wrapped in two plastic bags, stuffed inside a duffel bag and buried in a backyard earlier this year had methamphetamine in her system, according to a recently released autopsy report.

However, the state Office of the Medical Investigator could not determine how the baby, Anastazia Zuber, died. Her body was found about two weeks after concerns were first raised that she might have died.

“There is no minimum amount of methamphetamine that is considered fatal,” the autopsy report states. “Any concentration has the potential to cause increases in blood pressure, heart rate, and/or body temperature and may result in seizures, arrhythmias (irregular heart beat), or sudden death. There is no indication as to the route or the circumstances by which Anastazia was exposed to methamphetamine.”

Anastazia’s parents have been charged with child abuse resulting in death. Their cases are pending, and they were released from jail while awaiting their trials.

Police say the parents had told relatives their daughter had drowned, but the medical investigator could not determine if that was true.
 
The family of the baby [David Zuber] who died in CYFD custody says they made complaints prior to his death.
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According to the family’s attorney, Zuber and Romero went to visit the 6-month-old Thursday morning when they were told the boy had died. Their lawyer claims in the days leading up to his death, the family sent complaints to CYFD about the foster placement.

Police say it could take weeks to determine how the baby died.

No news yet on how the baby in foster care died. The druggie parents will get a hand slap for burying the baby girl, and they will win a settlement for the incompetent foster care. Then they will breed some more.
 
The father of a 1-year-old girl found buried in the backyard of a Northeast Albuquerque home in 2018 pleaded guilty Thursday to reckless child abuse in his daughter’s death.

David Zuber, 30, also pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence for burying the girl, Anastazia Zuber, who was found wrapped in plastic bags and stuffed into a duffel bag in a makeshift grave.

Zuber faces a minimum of five years in prison, according to his plea agreement. His sentencing hearing has not been scheduled.
Anastazia’s mother, Monique Romero, 27, pleaded guilty in April to one count of child abandonment resulting in death and faces up to 15 years in prison. Her sentencing hearing is set for Jan. 25.
Prosecutors alleged that Anastazia was placed unsupervised in a bathtub on Dec. 18, 2018, where Romero later found the girl unresponsive, according to court records.

Zuber took the girl’s body from the couple’s apartment and buried her, prosecutors said.
The state Office of the Medical Investigator later reported that Anastazia had methamphetamine in her system, but could not determine whether the drug contributed to her death. Nor could the medical investigator determine whether she had drowned.
 
Monique Romero was sentenced to five years behind bars Wednesday. Romero is the Albuquerque woman whose daughter drowned after being left in the bathtub.

In 2018, Romero and David Zuber confessed to police they left their one-year-old daughter Anastazia and her two-year-old sister in the tub. When they returned, the girl was face down and blue. They claimed they could not find their cell phone to call 9-1-1, so Zuber says he buried her in the backyard.
 
David Zuber, the man who tried to conceal his one-year-old daughter’s drowning in 2018, was sentenced to 16 years in prison Thursday. Zuber and Monique Romero left their one-year-old daughter and her two-year-old sister unattended in a bathtub.
 
I love how anytime a caregiver leaves a child unattended to die in the bath are always doing something uber responsible like looking for a job, making dinner, or creating peace in the Middle East. Usually it involves cleaning or doing laundry. That load of whites just couldn’t wait the two minutes it takes to lather and rinse a tiny human.

They claim they "couldn't find their phones to call 911", yet didn't mom say after putting the kids in the bath she "went downstairs to look for a job on her phone"??
Not saying this is what happened, but I’ve had my cell phone one second and a minute later it’s lost in the Bermuda Triangle Or I’m on my phone reading something while simultaneously walking through the house looking for it. That’s probably a me problem though.
 
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