Half-Ton Texas Woman Makes Court Appearance From Home

A Rio Grande Valley woman who weighs nearly half a ton has made a court appearance from her home in the beating death of her 2-year-old nephew.

Mayra Rosales, 27, is too big to leave her home in Sullivan City, so she made her first court appearance Thursday via video teleconference.

Court staff members projected her image on a wall as she talked with Hidalgo County state District Judge Ricardo Rodriguez Jr. from her bed.

Rosales is charged with capital murder and injury to a child in the death of Eliseo Gonzalez Jr.

Prosecutors say she struck her nephew repeatedly, inflicting multiple skull fractures and bruises that eventually caused his death.

She's denied intentionally hurting the child and suggested his injuries were inflicted before he came to her house March 18th.

He died later that day.

State law requires that all defendants be tried in the county seat, which in this case is Edinburg.

The boy's mother, Jamie Rosales, 20, is charged with injury to a child for leaving her son in the care of his bedridden aunt.

Both women have pleaded not guilty and are expected to go to trial next year.

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