The mother of a nonverbal 12-year-old boy who died following an alligator attack more than a week after he went missing from his New Orleans home was arrested.

Hilda Vasquez, the mother of Bryan Vasquez, was taken into custody Sunday evening on charges of second-degree cruelty to a juvenile and negligent homicide, the New Orleans Police Department said at a news conference.

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Authorities said Vasquez was charged with cruelty to a juvenile because this was not the first time Bryan had been "the victim of any sort of trauma."

She was previously arrested and convicted after Bryan, then 3 months old, suffered a skull fracture, broken legs, and a collapsed lung, authorities said. He was removed from the family’s home, b

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