A Bronx mother and grandmother were arrested Thursday morning in connection with the starvation-related death of an autistic 16-year-old boy, police said.<\/p>\n
Police arrested Geneva Jarvis, 36, and Denise Jarvis, 62, at about 8:40 a.m. and charged both women with murder, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n
Their arrests came four months after Adonis Jarvis, 16, was pronounced dead at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx on March 19. Police responded to the hospital on a report of a suspicious death and were told the teenager appeared to be malnourished. According to a police source, Adonis weighed just 60 pounds at the time of his death.<\/p>\n
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled his death a homicide, listing the cause as “chronic neglect including starvation and dehydration of disabled (autism spectrum disorder with epilepsy) dependent individual.”<\/p>\n
The Administration for Children’s Services said it was investigating alongside the NYPD but declined to comment on the family’s case because of state confidentiality laws.<\/p>\n
“The safety and well-being of New York City’s children is our top priority. We are investigating this tragic incident with the NYPD,” agency spokesperson Marisa Kaufman said.<\/p>\n
According to a police source, Adonis’ twin brother, who also has autism, was also malnourished when Adonis died. The twin is recovering at a rehabilitation facility, the source said.<\/p>\n
Geneva and Denise Jarvis were scheduled to be arraigned Thursday afternoon. Their attorney information was not immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx mother and grandmother were arrested Thursday morning in connection with the starvation-related death of an autistic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-310121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","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\/310121","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=310121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}