{"id":310584,"date":"2026-07-31T10:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310584\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T10:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:52:10","slug":"mom-grandmother-charged-with-murder-after-bronx-teen-with-autism-starves-to-death-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310584\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom, grandmother charged with murder after Bronx teen with autism starves to death"},"content":{"rendered":"

A mother and grandmother in the Bronx are under arrest and facing charges for allegedly starving a 16-year-old boy with autism to death.<\/p>\n

Adonis Jarvis was pronounced dead at a hospital in the Bronx on March 19.<\/p>\n

Officers were called to the hospital after he appeared to be malnourished and the Medical Examiner ruled his death a homicide.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, his mother and grandmother, 36-year-old Geneva Jarvis and 62-year-old Denise Jarvis, were arrested on murder charges.<\/p>\n

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Officials say an autopsy revealed that the teenager was starved to death. Sources say he weighed just 60 pounds at the time of his death.<\/p>\n

It also appears that the teen’s twin brother was hospitalized for starvation but survived. Both children were described by law enforcement as nonverbal.<\/p>\n

Police say they both exhibited signs of chronic neglect, starvation and dehydration upon arrival at the hospital and they had sores on their legs and all over their bodies.<\/p>\n

The family lives in a third-floor walkup on East 147th Street.<\/p>\n

The building superintendent told Eyewitness News that their apartment was filthy and uninhabitable.<\/p>\n

“It’s filled with garbage and clothes all over the place, I told her I wanted to go in the apartment to fix it, she kept saying ‘OK tomorrow’ and she never let us in,” the super said.<\/p>\n

Other neighbors said they never saw any red flags, but pointed out that the family kept to themselves.<\/p>\n

Both women were arraigned on Thursday afternoon and were held without bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother and grandmother in the Bronx are under arrest and facing charges for allegedly starving a 16-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[117354,128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-310584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-117354","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\/310584","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=310584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}