Angel  Preza

 

 

 

 

 

On June 28th Denver Police and paramedics were called just past 8:30 a.m. after receiving a report of a child who was not breathing. Angel Preza was vomiting up what appeared to be a combination of formula and bathwater when the crew members arrived. He was rushed to Swedish Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead just over an hour later.

 

Angel's mother Tacha Christensen wound up at the hospital, too, but not for long. She was soon cuffed and transported to police headquarters, where the affidavit says she agreed to talk after being read her rights. She revealed that she'd put Angel in a bathtub chair along with her two year old, who needed cleaning after messing his pants. She then turned on the shower and continued into the other room to make her husband, Aldo Preza, his breakfast.

 

What could possibly go wrong in that scenario? A whole lot. When she returned to the bathroom, she found Angel still in his chair but with his face in six inches of water. The water shouldn't have collected in the tub she noted, because she'd left the stopper out of the drain. This is something she claimed to have done on three prior occasions without a problem. However, she said the two year old liked to play with the stopper.

 

Not that Christensen entirely blamed her surviving child for what happened to Angel. She admitted that she'd screwed up by leaving the children alone in the bathtub and said what happened was her fault. The child abuse resulting in death charge leveled against Christensen suggests that the Denver District Attorney's Office agrees. But DA reps fitted Preza with the same count, presumably for putting breakfast ahead of his children's safety.

 

 

 

 

 

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