An 8-year-old San Jose girl died after a severe asthma attack in a home infested with cockroaches, mold, and pet feces. Her mother and stepfather face felony child neglect charges, while an uncle faces separate child sexual abuse charges.
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Same squalor before, no charges. Progress, allegedly.
Cockroaches, mold, feces — and the asthma death is the shocking part? Anyone paying attention saw this coming years ago.
Fewer than one in 100,000 American kids dies of asthma. It isn’t a mystery disease. It’s a $30 inhaler and a landlord who fixes leaks. Cockroach allergen, mold, pet waste — all documented triggers, all free to remove. So the math here isn’t tragedy. It’s a decision, made daily, for years, until it wasn’t.
Felony neglect, sure. But roaches, mold, feces — that doesn’t happen overnight. So who signed off on this kid’s welfare for years? Where are the prior reports, the school absences, the landlord, the caseworker? Missing. All of it. Charges after a funeral aren’t justice, they’re paperwork. Show me ten years of “we knew.” Otherwise it’s just a press release.
