A Texas mom who abandoned her bedridden 7-year-old daughter with Down syndrome and cerebral palsy while she went out clubbing has been given a life sentence.
Lauren Kay Dean pled guilty to murder on Wednesday and was sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years for endangering a child in the death of her daughter Jordynn Barrera in 2020.
On January 30, 2020, a complaint was made against Dean, alleging that the mother of three left her children at home to go to a pub called Shades.
Just a short while later, Bay City, Texas police visited Dean’s apartment to do a welfare check.
When detectives approached Dean, she volunteered to let them in to show the children were safe, but they discovered Jordynn, 7, dead, according to ABC13.
Dean’s two younger children, aged five and three months, were also discovered at the flat.
Jordynn was a nonverbal youngster who was diagnosed with Down Syndrome and cerebral palsy at a young age.
Authorities also stated that the 7-year-old daughter could only eat through a feeding tube.
Dean was arrested and charged with abandonment, child endangerment, and impending bodily harm.
Dean was arrested and put into the Matagorda County Jail on three second-degree felony charges: abandonment, endangering a child, and imminent danger bodily injury, according to court records.
She pled guilty to capital murder of a kid under the age of ten, as well as three counts of child abandonment.
