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   From: ajones@harris.org   
      
   JOURDANTON, Texas -- A mother and stepfather have been arrested after the   
   death of their 12-year-old daughter, who lay unconscious in their home for   
   four days before medical treatment was sought as the pair tried to feed   
   her smoothies, according to the county sheriff.   
      
   “They thought they could nurse her back to health,” said Atascosa County   
   Sheriff David Soward.   
      
   Denise Balbaneda, 36, and Gerald Gonzales, 40, both of Christine, each   
   face a felony charge of injury to a child causing serious bodily injury by   
   omission, Soward said during a news conference Wednesday.   
      
   Gonzales remains jailed while Balbaneda is free on bond, according to   
   online jail records, which do not list attorneys who could speak on their   
   behalf. A phone call Friday to a number listed for Balbaneda was answered   
   by a recording saying the call could not be completed.   
      
   The Associated Press also left a telephone message with the sheriff's   
   office Friday morning.   
      
   Sipps received life-threatening injuries on Aug. 8, but the parents did   
   not seek medical care until Monday, when Balbaneda called 911 and later   
   met an ambulance that took the girl to a hospital in Jourdanton, about 35   
   miles (56 kilometers) south of San Antonio, where she died, Soward said.   
      
   Soward said the couple were arrested Tuesday and have told investigators   
   how the girl was injured. The sheriff declined to describe the girl’s   
   injuries, citing an ongoing investigation and pending autopsy results.   
      
   “She was not talking, she basically could flutter her eyes and move her   
   hands a little bit over a four-day period" until medical care was sought,   
   Soward said.   
      
   “We do not think they wanted the attention this would draw to them if the   
   little girl was injured, which is strangely ironic,” now that both face   
   charges following the girl’s death, Soward said.   
      
   https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/texas-couple-charged-failing-seek-   
   medical-care-injured-112893997   
      
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