Authorities say a 16-year-old boy with disabilities died after enduring months of alleged neglect and starvation in his family’s third-floor apartment at 527 E. 147th St. His mother and grandmother are accused of causing his death.<\/p>\n
Police arrested 36-year-old Geneva Jarvis and 62-year-old Denise Jarvis Thursday morning. Prosecutors have charged both women with murder in connection with the death of Adonis Jarvis.<\/p>\n
According to investigators, doctors at Lincoln Hospital alerted police to what they believed was a suspicious death after noticing Adonis appeared severely malnourished on March 19.<\/p>\n
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner later ruled Adonis\u2019 death a homicide, according to investigators.<\/p>\n
Neighbors said they never suspected anything was wrong inside the apartment.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me it was normal\u2026 two normal ladies,\u201d one neighbor said. \u201cNothing that seemed off.\u201d<\/p>\n
The building\u2019s superintendent said the women were raising children with special needs inside the apartment, where trash could be seen scattered throughout after investigators entered.<\/p>\n
Detectives escorted the defendants from the NYPD\u2019s 40th Precinct into custody Thursday morning. They are awaiting arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court.<\/p>\n
Neighbors also told News 12 that Adonis has a brother. Police have not released any information about his condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities say a 16-year-old boy with disabilities died after enduring months of alleged neglect and starvation in his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-310278","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\/310278","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=310278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}