Daycare worker charged in child death to attend bond hearing

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — One of the daycare workers charged in connection with the death of a 4-year-old boy will be in Cameron County for a bond hearing on Friday.

Karen Silva, 36, was arrested in connection with the death of Logan Urbina, who was found unresponsive in a van that belonged to the Learning Club Pre School.

Additionally, in July ValleyCentral reported that Sendy Ruiz, 38, was also arrested in connection to the case.

Both women are charged with injury to a child causing death, a second-degree felony.

Ruiz was issued a bond of $60,000 and Silva was issued a bond of $10,000.

Background

Documents obtained by ValleyCentral indicated that the Learning Club Pre-School took its students on a field trip on June 27 to Los Fresnos. The van, which was in direct control of Ruiz and Silva, departed from the daycare at 8:30 a.m. The field trip concluded at about 11 a.m., and from there, the women transported 24 children, including Logan Urbina.

Of the 24 children who went on the field trip, 15, including Urbina, were placed in a 2018 Ford Transit Van and brought back to the daycare after the field trip. They arrived back to the Learning Club Pre School at about 11:30 a.m.

Statements obtained by police indicate that at about 4:30 p.m., staff members from the Learning Center Pre School began to realize that Urbina was missing. Silva and a second witness decided to go outside and check the van where they found Urbina who was unresponsive.

Silva and the witness removed Urbina from the van and another witness began to perform CPR on the child.

The child was pronounced dead shortly after.

As previously reported by ValleyCentral, Ruiz cooperated with police and provided a statement saying that she and Silva were in charge of the daycare van. She stated that when they came back to the daycare, they did not realize that Urbina had not gotten out of the van.

Silva refused to speak to police without her attorney present.