A Bronx mom and grandmother were arrested Thursday after an autistic teen died of starvation and neglect four months ago \u2013 and the horrific death was ruled a homicide, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n
Geneva Jarvis, 36, and Denise Jarvis, 62, were charged with murder in the March 19 death of Adonis Jarvis, 16, at Lincoln Medical Center\u2019s pediatric division, police said.<\/p>\n
Police were called to the hospital around 9:10 p.m. that day regarding the teen\u2019s \u201csuspicious death,\u201d which has since been deemed a homicide by the city medical examiner\u2019s office, police said.<\/p>\n
Adonis Jarvis seen with his brother. Facebook\/Geneva Jarvis<\/p>\n
The teen\u2019s death resulted from chronic neglect, including starvation and dehydration, according to law enforcement sources.<\/p>\n
It was not immediately clear how long the mistreatment was going on.<\/p>\n
Adonis \u2013 as well as his autistic twin brother who was in a similar state \u2013 were brought to the hospital by their mother, the sources said.<\/p>\n
The twin survived, according to the sources, but his current condition and whereabouts are unclear.<\/p>\n
Denise Jarvis seen with her grandchildren. Facebook\/Geneva Jarvis<\/p>\n
Geneva Jarvis was also charged in the murders. Facebook\/Geneva Jarvis<\/p>\n
The family lived on East 147th Street near St. Ann\u2019s Avenue, steps from St. Mary\u2019s Park in the South Bronx.<\/p>\n
Both mother and grandmother were awaiting arraignment Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx mom and grandmother were arrested Thursday after an autistic teen died of starvation and neglect four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14836,57,238,9,56,63,65,64,129,58],"class_list":["post-310015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-autism","tag-metro","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-the-bronx","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310015","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=310015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}