HOUSTON (AP) _ A 34-year-old suburban Houston woman has gone on trial for failing last year to prevent the death of her preschooler who was suffering from a severed pancreas and fractured skull and had been diagnosed with genital herpes.
Child Protective Services revamped its investigation of the case to include sexual abuse after 4-year-old Emma Thompson died June 27, 2009. Jury selection in the trial began Monday.
The child’s mother, Abigail Young, of Spring, faces up to life in prison if convicted of injury to a child by omission.