Overview

• At a Sept. 15 hearing, a New Orleans judge denied bond for Vasquez, who faces second-degree cruelty to a juvenile and negligent homicide charges.
• Vasquez is being held in the Plaquemines Parish Jail as the case proceeds, according to statements in court by her public defender.
• Prosecutors told the court that Bryan, born healthy, developed special needs after severe injuries at three months old, citing historical DCFS material.
• The court issued protective orders barring any contact with her children, with distance restrictions and a mandated domestic abuse program if bail is later set.
• Police records and the coroner’s findings detail that Bryan went missing on Aug. 14 and was found on Aug. 26 in a nearby lagoon, with death ruled an alligator attack and drowning.