GALVESTON, Texas (East Texas News) – A Galveston County judge has dismissed charges against a woman from Joaquin in connection with the drowning of a 6-year-old boy at a Crystal Beach hotel in 2024.
Silvia María Parra, 37, was initially charged with criminally negligent homicide and jailed in Shelby County Jail in August last year after the drowning occurred at the Crystal Palace hotel in June.
Parra was charged after investigators alleged she allowed the boy to enter the pool, “knowing that he could not swim, that he had no flotation device, that the pool was poorly lit, and that he was not being supervised.”
A Galveston County judge dismissed the charge on Monday, citing a lack of evidence to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.
