{"id":309947,"date":"2026-07-30T17:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/309947\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T17:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:02:10","slug":"mom-grandmother-arrested-for-murder-in-malnutrition-neglect-death-of-bronx-autistic-teen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/309947\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom, grandmother arrested for murder in malnutrition, neglect death of Bronx autistic teen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An autistic Bronx teen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2024\/10\/16\/malnourished-4-year-old-harlem-boy-was-just-19-pounds-siblings-also-starved-by-parents-prosecutors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died of starvation and neglect<\/a> \u2014 and his mother and grandmother have been charged with his murder, cops said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Adonis Jarvis, 16, suffered \u201cchronic neglect, starvation and dehydration\u201d at the hands of his mother and grandmother inside their Mott Haven apartment on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/527+E+147th+St,+Bronx,+NY+10455\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c2f5c7c8ae5081:0xcb135fd4a9d2abaf?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:242&amp;ictx=111\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">E. 147th St. near Brook Ave.<\/a>, according to a police source. Adonis\u2019 twin, who is also developmentally disabled, survived the neglect, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>The nonverbal teen\u2019s 36-year-old mother, Geneva Jarvis, and 62-year-old grandmother, Denise Jarvis, were arrested Thursday morning and charged with murder following the boy\u2019s autopsy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Ardonis Jarvis lived at this building on E. 147th St. in the Bronx. (Google)\" width=\"1909\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-30-121234.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9166972\" \/>Ardonis Jarvis lived at this building on E. 147th St. in the Bronx. (Google)<\/p>\n<p>Geneva brought Adonis and his twin brother to Lincoln Hospital on March 19. Both boys were malnourished at the time, police sources said, and Adonis died there that day. Hospital staff alerted police to the suspicious death.<\/p>\n<p>The mother and grandmother\u2019s arraignments were pending in Bronx Criminal Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An autistic Bronx teen died of starvation and neglect \u2014 and his mother and grandmother have been charged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,10,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-309947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}