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A grand jury indicted a nearly half-ton, bedridden woman Thursday, August 22, 2008 in the death of her 2-year-old nephew. Mayra Lizbeth Rosales, 27, was indicted on one count of first-degree murder and on one count of injury to a child in the death of Eliseo Gonzalez Jr. Rosales previously had been charged with capital murder. The grand jury indicted her after a full autopsy confirmed investigators’ suspicions that the child died March 18 because he had been struck. Investigators believe the toddler was struck at least twice, crushing his head. Jamie Lee Rosales, the boy’s mother and Rosales’ sister, was also arrested on a charge of injury to a child for failing to protect the boy. She was being held on $100,000 bond. Mayra Lizbeth The 20-year-old mother had signed a safety plan in April with Child Protective Services that advised her not to leave her children with her sister because of the woman’s disability.

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