A Henderson parent starved her 14-month-old girl to death, prosecutors alleged this week.
Prosecutors announced Wednesday that expansive jurors had indicted Alivia Bree Thrift, 26, connected a number of execution and a number of kid abuse, neglect oregon endangerment resulting successful important bodily harm.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Brianna Lamanna said astatine an indictment instrumentality proceeding that Thrift antecedently faced lone a kid maltreatment charge.
Prosecutors had believed it was a lawsuit of negligent attraction oregon maltreatment and that the parent whitethorn not person known of the child’s aesculapian conditions.
But she said that her bureau had since received an autopsy study and a doc testified to expansive jurors “that this is simply a wide lawsuit of ongoing starvation that happened to this child, to the constituent wherever her assemblage was breaking down.”
Prosecutors present judge they tin amusement that the suspect intentionally starved the babe to death, she said.
An indictment identified the kid by the initials “E.T.” and said Thrift killed her betwixt Jan. 2025 and March 2026.
The Clark County coroner’s bureau said the girl’s sanction was Evangelina Thrift and ruled her decease a homicide by starvation. Coroner’s records said she died March 24.
“She was 14 months aged astatine the clip of her decease and she was 9 pounds, which, arsenic your grant is astir apt aware, is the size of a zero to three-month-old, typically,” Lamanna told Chief District Judge Tierra Jones. “You could spot her bones, her look was caved successful and her body, including her bosom and respective of her organs, had showed the ongoing starvation that had happened of this child.”
Lamanna said household members tried to promote the child’s parent to get the miss aesculapian treatment, but she refused to spell to a doctor.
The authoritative asked for Thrift to beryllium held without bail, and Jones agreed to contented a nary bail warrant.
Thrift, who is successful custody astatine the Clark County Detention Center, declined an interrogation petition done the Metropolitan Police Department.
It was not wide who Thrift’s lawyer would be. Some nationalist defenders who antecedently represented her successful Henderson Justice Court hearings did not instantly respond to requests for comment.
Chief Deputy Public Defender Alison Coombs said her bureau was lone conditionally appointed to correspond Thrift astatine her archetypal quality March 25.
Contact Noble Brigham astatine nbrigham@reviewjournal.com.
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