San Jose couple charged in 8-year-old girl's asthma-related death

A San Jose couple was charged with child neglect after squalid home conditions and delayed medical attention led to their daughter's death in May, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office said Tuesday.Identified as Aurora Williams, San Jose police said she was found unresponsive at a Lancelot Lane home on May 13. Williams, the DA's office now says, had been suffering from an asthma attack and was in serious medical distress for eight hours before her parents sought medical help. The DA identified the girl's mother as 32-year-old Gabrielle Hanson and her stepfather as 39-year-old Jacob Randolph.Williams was eventually taken to the hospital but died four days later. The DA said her cause of death was determined to be lack of oxygen stemming from severe asthma with acute lung injury in the setting of human rhinovirus/enterovirus infection. "Medical neglect was determined to be a significant factor in her death, and the manner of death was homicide," the DA said. The DA described