LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A Las Vegas mother has told police she lost her 15-year-old and locked her 7-year-old daughter in a filthy and overheated house, leaving her 15-year-old to look after her siblings. Documents obtained Thursday by eight News Now agents show she was locked up in her room for a year after her ex-boyfriend allegedly sexually assaulted the girl. .

A grand jury last week indicted 37-year-old Filena Deez on seven counts of child abuse, neglect or endangerment, according to records.

Juan de la Cruz, 39, was charged with sexually assaulting a child under the age of 14 and molesting a child under the age of 14, according to records.

As 8 News Now Investigators first reported on Tuesday, the 15-year-old boy told a grand jury that his family moved into the house with his mother and two brothers in 2019. The house is located in the South Valley near Cactus Avenue and Decatur Boulevard. A boy, Aurelius Deeds, was born in the house in December 2021, according to documents.

Aurelius was a year old when he died in May, but police said he “appeared to have been dead for some time,” the documents said. Investigators described the child as “small and thin.” The Clark County coroner’s office said his cause of death was pending as of Tuesday.

The boy told a grand jury that his mother suspected his ex-boyfriend had sexually assaulted his brother, according to the documents. The teenager told the grand jury that Deeds did not report the alleged incident to police.

Deeds told police in January 2022 that he witnessed Delacruz sexually assaulting a child, who was 7 at the time, in his living room in January 2022.

Deeds told police that he locked her in her room “to keep her safe”.

When detectives questioned the child after his brother’s death, the child stated that he “didn’t like that he couldn’t see his brother because the door was locked,” documents state. “[The girl] He said the door was locked because his mother told him to ‘keep interrupting’. “

The child then told detectives that he had been sexually assaulted by Mr. de la Cruz, according to the documents.

Deeds then “removed the doorknob” of the child’s bedroom and “replaced it with a doorknob with a lock on the outside of the room to keep the child locked in the room,” the document said.

According to the documents, the child was “locked in a bedroom” for nearly a year from the age of seven. The now 8-year-old was allowed to use the restroom, but food was delivered to her room while she was confined. the teenager told the grand jury.

“The only time she could ask was when I was going to the bathroom, and she knocked on the door and asked me if I could ask Filena if she could eat something,” the teenager said. told the jury.

The boy told police he had not been to school since the seventh grade. They told a grand jury that the boy should have attended 10th grade last year.

Deeds reportedly left for a trip on Friday, April 28, a teenage boy told a grand jury. According to the teenage boy, the house had no running water for a month or two at the time, and the toilet didn’t work either. Around this time, the 1-year-old began to behave differently than usual, and “he stopped making noise,” said the 15-year-old.

Deeds allegedly told the boy that he needed water to activate the system, according to the documents, and the house did not have air conditioning. Documents say the temperature in the house was 90 degrees when the baby died.

By May 1, Deeds had not returned home, according to documents, and the boy was considering calling the police or child protective services. Later, the boy finds the infant dead.

The CPS detained the children on the same day, according to documents. Deeds returned from Arizona the next day, according to the documents.

Deeds told investigators that he never enrolled his children in a school district to homeschool them, according to the documents. She also told investigators that she taught a 15-year-old boy how to care for his three children in his absence.

According to the documents, she told police she allowed “a sexual assault offender to be near her child” because he “was paying for it.”

Deeds pleaded not guilty. A trial was scheduled for August. She remained in the Clark County Jail on $150,000 bail Tuesday.

Dela Cruz moved out in late 2022 and lived on the Santa Clara Pueblo Reservation in New Mexico, police said. Police arrested him on Sunday, according to records.

When police filed an arrest warrant for Delacruz in May, Judge Joe Bonaventure denied granting him bail, according to the documents. Judge Joseph Sichento denied his bail at a hearing on Tuesday.

Records show that CPS had two previous interactions with the family, in February 2020 and April 2021. According to CPS records, the referral was “coded ‘information only’.” A boy’s April 30 call “alleging abuse and neglect” has also been noted. The case is listed as unresolved.