The mother of a 12-year-old boy who was found dead in a New Orleans East lagoon late last month will remain jailed without bond after a Monday hearing, according to court records.

Hilda Vasquez, 34, appeared in Orleans Parish Magistrate Court on a count of second-degree cruelty to juveniles and negligent homicide following the death of her son, Bryan Vasquez, whose body was found among alligators on Aug. 26 after a 12-day, multi-agency search.

Vasquez, who was being held at the Plaquemines Parish jail as of Monday evening, was denied bond after a prosecutor shared new details from three sustained Louisiana Department of Child and Family Services investigations, according to criminal justice sources. One DCFS investigation found that Vasquez and her youngest of three surviving children

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