Child whose skeletal remains were found in Houston apartment killed by ‘homicidal violence’ medical examiner says

The mom, Gloria Y. Williams, 35, was charged with damage to a baby by omission and tampering with proof involving a human corpse, Gonzalez stated.

Bond for Coulter has been set at $1 million and for Williams at $350,000 and each stay in custody, based on on-line court docket paperwork.

Efforts by CNN to seek out out whether or not both has an legal professional have been unsuccessful Wednesday.

In a information launch, the sheriff’s workplace stated the 15-year-old referred to as authorities and stated his brother had been lifeless for a yr and that his physique was within the room subsequent to his. The teenager stated his dad and mom had not lived within the condo for a number of months.

“Evidently they have been in there whereas the physique was deteriorating,” Gonzalez stated, referring to the opposite youngsters.

One in every of them, Erica Chapman, informed KTRK that she began giving him meals six months in the past after noticing that the mom was not often there.

“She would come and park, and he would run down and seize noodles, drinks and chips and run again up,” Chapman stated.

One other stated the 15-year-old had knocked on his door and requested to make use of a charger, “and we constructed a bond from there,” Trevor Thompson informed KTRK.

“I began providing him meals as a result of I knew he wanted greater than only a charger,” Thompson stated.

“A number of occasions I observed the lights weren’t on, and it was quiet upstairs, so I figured there was bother as a result of the dad and mom have not been there shortly,” Thompson stated.

Each neighbors stated they did not know there have been different youngsters and did not name authorities “as a result of they did not perceive the magnitude of the state of affairs,” based on KTRK.

Investigators discovered the physique unconcealed within the condo, Gonzalez stated. He did not know precisely how or when the kid died.

“It seems the stays had been there for an prolonged time frame, and I emphasize prolonged,” he stated. When requested if he meant for weeks, he stated “for much longer than that.”

Gonzalez stated it regarded just like the 15-year-old had been caring for his youthful siblings the most effective he may.

“It seems that they have been mainly fending for one another,” Gonzalez stated, including that the youngsters have been dwelling in “fairly deplorable situations.”

The 2 youthful youngsters appeared malnourished and confirmed indicators of bodily damage, the sheriff’s workplace stated. All three have been transported to a hospital for remedy.

They’re now within the emergency custody of The Texas Division of Household and Protecting Companies, based on a press release despatched to CNN by DFPS.

In Could 2020, three of the youngsters stopped attending faculty within the Alief Impartial College District, based on Kimberly N. Smith, director of public relations and communications at AISD. Smith didn’t specify which three youngsters she was referring to.

In 2019, faculty district officers started a truancy investigation into the mom for one of many youngsters’s lack of attendance, however the case was dismissed on the finish of the 2019-2020 faculty yr by the District Lawyer’s Workplace, Smith stated.

“The kids didn’t attend faculty through the 2020-2021 nor 2021-2022 faculty years. In September 2020, faculty personnel tried a house go to in an effort to return the youngsters to highschool which went unanswered,” Smith added.

The Harris County District Lawyer’s Workplace stated it plans “to unravel what these youngsters have endured.”

“Our specialised prosecutors proceed to work with the sheriff’s deputies, as this horror is completely investigated,” spokesperson Dane Schiller stated in an e mail to CNN.