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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cleveland mother accused of killing her 5-year-old disabled son and burying him in the backyard of her home gave birth to her 10th child while in jail awaiting trial on murder charges.

Larissa Rodriguez, 34, gave birth to a girl April 27, according to court records. She was taken from the Cuyahoga County Jail to a local hospital to give birth, the records say.

A judge granted Cuyahoga County Children and Family Services temporary emergency custody of the child, according to court records. The girl was released from the hospital April 29.

Rodriguez and her boyfriend, Christopher Rodriguez, are charged with murder in connection with the death of Larissa Rodriguez's son, Jordan.

Jordan was found dead and buried Dec. 19 in the backyard of her Detroit-Shoreway home after Christopher Rodriguez's brother called police from Pakistan to report the death.

His body showed multiple signs of abuse, including broken ribs, court records say. Prosecutors previously said that Jordan died after his mother failed to seek medical treatment for him.

Jordan was last seen alive in September, and investigators believe he died sometime around Sept. 22, prosecutors said.

Social workers said in court documents that her home was in "deplorable and unsanitary conditions." It was also infested with rats and cockroaches, and social workers found one child eating a cockroach-filled sandwich when they arrived at the house, records say.


The four children who lived at the home have been taken into emergency custody by the county, which has opened 13 abuse or neglect investigations into Rodriguez since 1999.

Both Larissa and Christopher Rodriguez and her boyfriend have pleaded not guilty to the murder charges.

Larissa Rodriguez last week pleaded guilty to trafficking in food stamps, telecommunications fraud, grand theft and money laundering.

Rodriguez and a social worker, Nancy Caraballo, contracted to help the family through Catholic Charities admitted to a scheme in which the social worker paid Rodriguez about 50 cents on the dollar in cash for the use of Rodriguez's food stamp benefit card.

Rodriguez used the money to pay for her cellphone bills, gasoline and to visit her boyfriend while he was in jail in Medina County, prosecutors said.