Child Death In Mansion: Homer Glen Mother Remains In Will County Jail

JOLIET — Alexa Balen, the mother of Trinity Balen Weiher, the 2-year-old girl who died of an apparent drug overdose inside a $1 million Homer Glen home on Thorn Apple Drive, has been moved to the Will County Jail, and she has been denied pretrial release under the SAFE-T-Act.

Balen and Edward Weiher, the child's father, are charged as co-defendants in connection with Trinity's death. The Will County Sheriff's Office made the arrests. According to Balen's criminal complaint, she and Weiher are charged with endangering the life or health of a child on Nov. 6 and "said violation was a proximate cause of the death of" Trinity.

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The Homer Glen parents are also charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance, cocaine and heroin.

A fourth charge, endangering the life or health of a child, accuses Balen of providing an unsafe living conditions for her other daughter, who is 6.

On Nov. 14, Will County's prosecutors noted that Trinity was dying from the apparent drug overdose for approximately four hours before Weiher and Balen finally called 911.

The call to 911 was made at 11:27 p.m. Balen used her phone to make her first Google search seeking information on how to stop an overdose at 7:46 p.m., according to prosecutors.

"So this child was lying there dying nearly four hours, dying of an overdose, and they were unable to take care of her," prosecutor Amanda Tasker argued.

On the night of Nov. 6, Trinity died of a suspected overdose from ingesting heroin and cocaine, according to prosecutors. The toxicology results are still pending; the child showed so signs of any blunt force trauma.

Trinity's 6-year-0ld sister was later admitted into Christ Hospital after doctors discovered she had cocaine and fentanyl in her system, according to prosecutors.

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