Half-Ton Texas Woman Makes Court Appearance From Home
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Half-Ton Texas Woman Makes Court Appearance From Home
A Texas woman who weighs nearly a half a ton has made a court appearance from home in the beating death of her 2-year-old nephew.
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(November 14, 2008)—A Rio Grande Valley woman who weighs nearly half a ton has made a court appearance from her home in the beating death of her 2-year-old nephew.

Mayra Rosales, 27, is too big to leave her home in Sullivan City, so she made her first court appearance Thursday via video teleconference.

Court staff members projected her image on a wall as she talked with Hidalgo County state District Judge Ricardo Rodriguez Jr. from her bed.

Rosales is charged with capital murder and injury to a child in the death of Eliseo Gonzalez Jr.

Prosecutors say she struck her nephew repeatedly, inflicting multiple skull fractures and bruises that eventually caused his death.

She's denied intentionally hurting the child and suggested his injuries were inflicted before he came to her house March 18th.

He died later that day.

State law requires that all defendants be tried in the county seat, which in this case is Edinburg.

The boy's mother, Jamie Rosales, 20, is charged with injury to a child for leaving her son in the care of his bedridden aunt.

Both women have pleaded not guilty and are expected to go to trial next year.

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Posted by: william Location: waco on Nov 17, 2008 at 06:24 AM

Why bother with a trial. What will they do put an ankle bracelet on her and tell her not to leave home. She's already doing that. If that's all they do then it's just another waste of taxpayers money and no justice for the little kid. Remember we put these judges in and we can take them out.
Posted by: me Location: Killeen on Nov 16, 2008 at 02:07 PM

If this woman is on any kind of state assistance she needs to be cut off based on her conviction. Cut off her free money supply, cuts off her endless supply of food. There are ways to settle this, the quicker the better.
Posted by: Henry Location: S. Carolina on Nov 15, 2008 at 01:38 PM

I'm with George - board the house up and see which one becomes a "Happy Meal".
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