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According to police, officers received a 911 call on Dec. 16 that indicated an infant had died in Nampa. Emergency first responders were dispatched to the scene, where they found the dead baby.
The father of the child, Brian Lemke, 31, was still at the scene when first responders arrived.

Lemke told police that the mother, Allysen Armenta, 28, was not present, but officers later found her hiding in a "camp trailer in the backyard," where she was arrested without incident.
Lemke and Armenta are both charged with failure to notify death and injury to a child, as well as destroying evidence and resisting or obstructing officers.
Nampa police say the investigation revealed that the child had died elsewhere and was later moved to the home, though an autopsy is still needed to determine the cause of death. Police spokesperson Carmen Boeger told the Idaho Statesman in a message that the infant was 12 days old at the time of death.
A former foster parent, who has since adopted some of Lemke and Armenta's other children, told KIVI-TV Idaho News 6 they had urged Idaho Health and Welfare and Nampa police to conduct a welfare check on the family weeks before the arrests.

The couple was also previously jailed in 2019 after three toddlers were found living in "dangerous and dirty conditions" in a South Boise home. Lemke and Armenta both pleaded guilty to three counts of injury to a child and received a misdemeanor sentence, ultimately spending one day in jail each before being released on supervised probation.
 
Neighborhood Reporter Victoria Rodriguez spoke exclusively with two women who are caring for the couple's other children. They say they pushed authorities to ensure this baby was safe before his death.
"I asked for them to please at least just put eyes on this baby, make sure that he was going home to a safe environment, just because of the history," said an anonymous adoptive mother who asked to remain unnamed to protect her children's privacy.

According to a newly obtained probable cause affidavit, the couple has had five children removed from their care. Three of those children are now living with their adoptive mother.
Then she learned Armenta was pregnant, days before the baby was even born, she says she called Health and Welfare.

"I was worried about this outcome. I think I just knew in my heart this was a possibility, and I just can't believe that's where it ended," the anonymous adoptive mother said.

According to the affidavit, Lemke posted on social media asking for help just days after the baby's birth. A detective traced the post to an anonymous user in a Facebook group asking for money or propane to help heat their trailer.
The adoptive mother says she asked Nampa Police to intervene.


"The officer had called Health and Welfare, and whoever he spoke to let them know that, yes, this is an open case, but at this time, there is no, um, this isn't a high enough level priority for us to send a worker out today," the anonymous adoptive mother said.
A Nampa Police investigator goes on to say in the affidavit that in the days leading up to the infant's death, Armenta texted Lemke that she was worried about Child Protective Services taking another of their children, suggesting that they should "pack a bag and run."
Neighborhood Reporter Victoria Rodriguez spoke to another woman who says she called authorities. Delfina Krakow says she's a former foster mom to some of the couple's children.

"Nobody within the hospital or nobody with CPS intervened while the baby was still in the hospital," Krakow said.
Idaho News 6 has reached out to the hospital to find out whether any red flags were raised before the baby went home, but hasn't heard back by the time this report was filed.


While the case remains open, both women are pushing for change, working with legislators to pass a bill aimed at better protecting children.
 
This always puzzles me. People having children and they get them removed usually due to neglect. They repeat this over and over again. Rather than fix their lives and possibly recover custody they just pop out more and then try to hide them away. But why if they don't plan on actually caring for them? They want ownership? View the child as an object?
 
This always puzzles me. People having children and they get them removed usually due to neglect. They repeat this over and over again. Rather than fix their lives and possibly recover custody they just pop out more and then try to hide them away. But why if they don't plan on actually caring for them? They want ownership? View the child as an object?
I have an issue that the hospital and CPS allowed them to leave the hospital with the baby.
 
DCF is very quick to harass parents who allow their children to walk to school or play at a neighborhood park but they don't care when a couple who has been proven to be bad parents give birth to another baby to neglect. It just defies logic.
 
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