'Dangerous squalor.' California parents charged in death of asthmatic girl who lived in roach-filled home

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Set us as preferred The parents of an 8-year-old girl who died after an extended asthma attack in her family’s squalid San José home have been charged with felony child neglect, Santa Clara County prosecutors announced this week.The girl’s mother, Gabrielle Hanson, 32; and stepfather, Jacob Randolph, 39, were arraigned Tuesday in Santa Clara County Superior Court.Neither entered a plea.On May 13, the girl, identified by authorities as Aurora, had an asthma attack and “fell into serious medical distress,” but her parents waited eight hours before seeking medical help, according to the Santa Clara County district attorney’s office.

Aurora was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where she died four days later.California An 8-year-old boy was beaten, left chained up and starved over the course of a year, losing more than 100 pounds before he was found dead last October, according to testimony in his parents’ murder case.

Questions remain about why school officials and social workers failed to check on the boy.Last month, the county Office of the Medical Examiner-Coroner classified Aurora’s death as a homicide.The cause was determined to be a lack of oxygen to the brain due to severe asthma with acute lung injury while fighting cold-like symptoms.

The county’s chief medical examiner, Michelle Jorden, determined that medical neglect was “a significant factor in her death,” the district attorney’s office said in a statement.Prosecutors said Aurora was one of seven children, ages 2 months to 17 years, who lived in an East San José house on Lancelot Lane that was filled with cockroaches, pet feces, garbage and mold.The children were taken into protective custody by county social workers after Aurora was hospitalized.

Prosecutors said the Santa Clara County Department of Family and Children’s Services was well...