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http://www.khou.com/home/HPD-Circum...ar-olds-death-are-questionable-138473544.htmlHOUSTON – The mother of a 5-year-old girl who was found dead at a southwest Houston apartment Tuesday night has confessed to killing and abusing the child, HPD Homicide investigators said Wednesday.
Charges of injury to a child, a first-degree felony, were pending against 41-year-old Rosa Gonzalez.
Investigators were called to Gonzalez’s home at the Pier Club apartments, located in the 9900 block of Club Creek, around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.
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Paramedics tried to revive the girl, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said the mother initially told them that Candy had fallen off of the toilet and hit her head on the tile floor.
But investigators on Wednesday said Gonzalez later confessed to killing Candy. Gonzalez, who has nine other children, reportedly told investigators that she had been beating and abusing Candy for years.
None of the other children was abused, police said, though they did not say why Candy was targeted.
HPD Homicide Sgt. Bobby Roberts told KHOU 11 News that Candy was severely malnourished at the time of her death.
"The child was in very bad shape. She was gonna be six this year, and appeared about the size of a 3-year-old. Very little, very malnourished, very awful – awful," Sgt. Roberts said.
Police said some of Gonzalez’s other children are grown, but the ones who were still living in the home were in CPS custody Wednesday.
Neighbors said the family had just moved into the apartment about four months ago. Investigators said Gonzalez is in the country illegally.
The child’s body was sent to the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences for autopsy Tuesday night to determine an exact cause of death, but it was not clear when those results would be available.
Pending the outcome of the autopsy, the charges against Gonzalez could be upgraded to capital murder, police said.
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