Did a two year old with treacher collins syndrome die under foster care?”
Child Protective Services is investigating a family whose foster child died Monday. The biological mother blames CPS for putting her two-year-old little girl into the wrong hands, but why the child was placed in CPS in the first place may offer another point of view. Two-year-old Jenesis Gomez was born with treacher collins syndrome, a disease characterized by facial deformities. Before she died Monday, she depended on a tube to eat and breathe. Jenesis’s mother, Ashley Silva, said she was told that the toddler removed her own tube on Monday. Silva said she refuses to believe this. “She did not do that,” Silva said. “She knows to protect herself. She knows that’s her airways.” Silva said she believes it is the foster family’s fault because she thinks they did not help Jenesis get her tube back in. “If they were there to assist her, she would have been alive,” Silva said. “I know it. I’m telling you.” Even if Jenesis was still alive, though, it’s likely she would be with a foster family
The state is investigating the death of a 2-year-old girl who died four days after being placed in a foster home. The girl, who had Treacher Collins syndrome which affects the development of bones and facial tissue, died Monday at Christus Spohn Hospital Alice Hospital, said John Lennan, spokesman for Child Protective Services. An autopsy is being conducted to help determine her cause of death, Lennan said. Residential Child Care Licensing is conducting an investigation on the foster home to ensure all standards were being met. Lennan late Wednesday couldn’t say how long the foster home had been working with CPS or if there had been past problems. CPS has been working with the girl’s family since January when allegations of neglectful supervision and physical neglect were made against her mother and father. At that time, the girl was placed with a grandmother, but had to be moved when the girl was found at her mother’s home, Lennan said. She then was placed in May with an aunt, who was
