Overview
- Jessica Quintana, 39, was taken into custody at 10:07 a.m. Friday following her discharge from a hospital, according to the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office.
- She faces two counts of injury to a child causing bodily injury and one count of assault causing bodily injury.
- Deputies on Sept. 29 found three children wet and out of a pond and their mother in the water, and lifesaving measures were performed at the scene.
- All three children were treated and placed in temporary custody of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, with plans to place them with relatives during the ongoing case.
- The father, Domingo Quintana, was arrested on an unrelated animal-cruelty charge and released on bond, and a Liberty police lieutenant was suspended pending an internal investigation into his access to the father.