Mother sentenced to life after daughter with medical conditions found dead in Bay City apartment

BAY CITY, Texas — A Bay City mother will be spending the rest of her life in prison after pleading guilty to the murder of her bedridden daughter, according to court documents.

Editorial note: The above video is from the original report which aired in Feb. 2020.

Lauren Dean pleaded guilty Wednesday to the 2020 murder of her 7-year-old daughter after court documents said she failed to provide the necessary medical care.

Dean also pleaded guilty to abandoning a child and was given 20 years in prison that will run concurrently with her life sentence, court records show. 

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The 7-year-old was found dead in Jan. 2020 when the Bay City Police Department responded to Dean’s apartment for a welfare check. Dean was in the home along with her two other children — who were 5 years old and 3 months old at the time.

Police did not say if the other children were injured but confirmed they were removed from the home.

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