A mother accused of letting alligators kill her young son allegedly also got her newborn baby high on cocaine.
Hilda Vasquez, 34, was arrested after her 12-year-old autistic son, Bryan, was discovered dead in a lagoon in New Orleans East last month.
Bryan climbed out of the bedroom window of his home on August 14 wearing an adult diaper and vanished, according to his mum.
A search ensued, and a United Cajun Navy volunteer found Bryan’s body in a canal just a few blocks from his home on August 26. His cause of death was blunt trauma and drowning from an alligator attack, according to the New Orleans coroner.
The volunteer, Jon Gusanders, said that two gators stored Bryan’s body underwater and surfaced with it. Gusanders said he used a drone for about an hour to distract the animals from