ANAHI JUAREZ-GONZALEZ - 11 Months (2010)/ charged: 17 yo cousin - Denver CO

It happened Tuesday morning at an apartment at 1095 S. Quivas near W. Mississippi. Outside the modest apartment is a growing memorial for 11-month old Anahi Juarez-Gonzalez.
"She was really outgoing. She was crawling and already taking her first baby steps," said a relative who only wanted to be identified as "Maria."
Inside the apartment is a grieving mother--shell-shocked over the sudden and unexpected death of her baby.
Maricella Gonzalez-Gonzalez says in Spanish and through tears that her daughter died in so much pain, and that she still hasn't gotten to see her.
"Very unfortunate case where a relative was watching this little girl and, at some point, the relative found the child in a bathtub," said Denver Police Det. John White.
Police won't say how the child ended up in the tub, but Maricella said her husband's nephew was bathing her. They don't know how Anahi ended up drowning.
"You go somewhere. You leave her. You never expect to get that call that you're never going to see her anymore," said Maria.
Candles flickering in Anahi's memory, sit next to a donation box to pay for her funeral.
Her stuffed animals remind them of what they've lost. But also what they have to live for--a nearly 2-year-old son and another baby on the way. Maricella is four months pregnant.
The Denver Coroner did an autopsy but won't release any information pending further studies.
The immigrant family is lower-income and needs help paying for their baby's funeral.
Friends have set up the Anahi Juarez Memorial Fund. Donations can be made at any US Bank.

Teen charged in toddler's drowning death


Web Staff KDVR Denver
4:56 PM MDT, September 15, 2010
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DENVER - Prosecutors have filed felony charges against a teenager whose 11-month-old cousin drowned in a bathtub last week.

The 17-year-old, whose name was not released, faces a charge of Child Abuse Resulting in Death.

On the morning Sept. 7, the teen was babysitting Anahi Juarez-Gonzalez and her 22-month-old brother at an apartment in the 1000 block of South Quivas near W.

Mississippi when, according to the Denver District Attorney's Office, the teen went back to sleep, leaving the children unattended in the home.

He later awoke to discover Anahi unconscious in a bathtub full of water, prosecutors said.

Police won't say how the child ended up in the tub.

"Very unfortunate case where a relative was watching this little girl and, at some point, the relative found the child in a bathtub," said Denver Police Det. John White.

The juvenile suspect was being held at the Gilliam Youth Center.

kiwimom wrote:

kiwimom wrote:Tom, I'm not sure where this goes now charges have been laid. We had it in unresolved

---In the eyes of the court, child abuse leading to death is a variation of murder. Here it goes...

Anahi Juarez: Misery, mystery accompany parents at girl's grave

Posted:   11/18/2012 12:01:00 AM MST

By Jordan Steffen
The Denver Post



TENDING TO FAMILY. The family of Anahi Juarez, left, who died at the age of 10 months, visits the girl's grave at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Wheat Ridge in June. Anahi's mother, Marciela Gonzalez, grooms the grass around the grave marker, while her husband, Jesus Juarez, plays with their other children, Jesus, right, and Carolina. Anahi drowned in a bathtub Sept. 7, 2010, while she and her brother were in the care of Juarez s then-17-year-old cousin. The family tries to visit the grave weekly. (Craig F. Walker, The Denver Post)



Almost every week, Marciela Gonzalez and Jesus Juarez visit their daughter's grave.

Gonzalez wipes away tears as she plucks blades of grass from around the polished headstone; her husband kneels next to her, staring at a photo of his daughter.

Anahi Juarez's parents still do not know the details of how their daughter died Sept. 7, 2010.

Six months before Anahi's death, Denver Human Services opened an investigation because an intoxicated Juarez drove his son to the emergency room. Juarez admitted to driving drunk but explained that his son was having a hard time breathing and there was no one else to take the boy.

Juarez and Gonzalez accepted visits from child protection workers after the drunken-driving report and appeared to be making progress as a family, according to a state and county review of Anahi's death.

The last time the couple saw Anahi, she smiled, they said. Juarez left for work that morning. Gonzalez had a doctor's appointment, and the two left Anahi and her older brother, Jesus, in the care of Juarez's then-17-year-old cousin.

That morning, the teenager fell asleep.

The cousin told investigators that while he was sleeping, Jesus, almost 2 at the time, went into the bathroom and turned on the bathtub faucet. He told authorities that the 10-month-old Anahi must have then fallen into the tub and drowned.

The coroner's report lists drowning as the cause of death, and the manner of death was determined to be accidental. The teen was charged as a juvenile in the case, and his case file is sealed.

Anahi Juarez: Misery, mystery accompany parents at girl's grave - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/failedtodeath/ci_22017891/anahi-juarez-misery-mystery-accompany-parents-at-girls#ixzz2z7gm3cP8

Apparently this case has been adjudicated and we will never know the results because he was charged as a juvenile.