A 12-year-old girl from Texas died after her parents failed to seek medical help for her mystery illness – instead trying to nurse her back to health with smoothies.
WHAT HAPPENED?
Miranda Sipps, who was a cheerleader at Jourdanton Junior High School, suffered from unknown life-threatening injuries for about four days before she tragically passed on Monday.
THE FOUL PLAY
During this time, Denise Balbaneda, 36, Sipps’ mother, and Gerald Gonzales, 40, her stepfather, plied the teen with vitamin-rich smoothies in a bizarre bid to heal her from a devastating sickness.
Instead of rushing their daughter to the hospital, Balbaneda and Gonzales kept Sipps at home, where the severely injured girl lay on a ‘pallet’ and drifted in and out of consciousness.
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WHAT INVESTIGATORS THINK
Investigators believe that the parents might have shown reluctance to seek medical attention because they did not want law enforcement to come to their home, which authorities described as ‘unkept.’
No further details have been given about the injury that ultimately killed Sipps or how she might have sustained it.
Dispatchers received a call for medical assistance around 8pm on the night Sipps died.
They met up with the family at at Highway 16 South and FM 140, where EMS workers found her ‘alive but unconscious’.
Miranda was rushed to Methodist Hospital in Atascos, where she was pronounced dead.
