text: EARLY NEXT YEAR. MORE BREAKING NEWS WE ARE FOLLOWING. A JUDGE RULED THE THREE SIBLINGS OF A 19 MONTH OLD BABY BURNED TO DEATH WILL STAY IN FOSTER CARE. CATH YEAR HERNANDEZ WAS INSIDE THE COURTROOM FOR THE HEARING. WHAT ELSE ARE WE LEARNING FROM THAT? Reporter: CPS CALLED THIS EMERGENCY HEARING TODAY AFTER THEY BELIEVE THAT THOSE CHILDREN ARE IN DANGER. AND THOSE CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BE IN THE CUSTODY OF THEIR PARENTS. SO TODAY THAT JUDGE AGREED. TODAY IN A HEARING A JUDGE ORDERED A FIVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL AND HER THREE-YEAR-OLD BROTHER AND SISTER TO STAY IN FOSTER CARE. WHILE THEY WERE HOME ALONE MONDAY NIGHT, THEIR 19-MONTHS-OLD SISTER MANAGEELED TO GET INSIDE THE OVEN AND IT WAS TURNED ON. SHE DIED FROM SEVERE BURNS. CPS TOLD THE JUDGE THE FIVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL HAS GONE BACK AND FORTH, BUT CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN SLEEPING WHEN IT ALL HAPPENED. THE CASE WORKER ALSO SAYS ONE OF THE THREE-YEAR-OLDS TOOK RESPONSIBILITY FOR PUTTING THE BABY IN THE OVEN. CPS SAYS IT WILL CONTINUE TALKING WITH THE THREE CHILDREN. WE'RE STILL GOING TO BE WORKING WITH THE CHILDREN. PART OF THAT'S GOING TO BE THE COUNSELING TO SEE IF WE CAN HELP THEM DEALING WITH THOSE MEMORIES AND WHAT HAPPENED. Reporter: INVESTIGATORS SAY THE MOTHER WAS AT WORK MONDAY NIGHT AND LEFT THE FOUR CHILDREN WITH HER BOYFRIEND. POLICE QUESTIONED THE MOTHER, WHO HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF PREVIOUS CPS CASES, ALONG WITH HER BOYFRIEND. IT'S UNCLEAR IF THEY'LL FACE CHARGES. THE ATTORNEY FOR THE CHILDREN SAYS BOTH THREE-YEAR-OLDS ARE IN ONE HOME AND THE FIVE-YEAR-OLD IS IN ANOTHER. THE NEXT HEARING TO TALK ABOUT THE CUSTODY OF THE CHILDREN IS DECEMBER 2. REPORTING LIVE IN DOWNTOWN 
   
   HOUSTON - 
   
   Three siblings of a 19-month-old girl who was burned to death inside a northeast Houston apartment on Monday will be placed in foster care. 
   
   Case workers from Child Protective Services filed an emergency hearing to take custody of the three children. According to CPS, there have been previous reports made concerning the mother. 
   
   According to homicide detectives from the Houston Police Department, the mother was at work and left her three children with her boyfriend at the Angel Ridge Apartments off the 8600 block of Sterlingshire Street. 
   
   The children -- a 5-year-old, two 3-year-olds and a 19-month-old girl -- were home alone when they started to play with the oven. Emergency crews arrived after midnight, but there was nothing they could do to save the baby, J'zyra Thompson. 
   
   "Upon their arrival they found a deceased 1-year-old," HPD homicide detective Ronda Pemberton said. "We found the baby next to the oven. It appears to be accidental." 
   
   On Wednesday, authorities focused on her three siblings who were a 5-year-old girl, 3-year-old girl and 3-year-old boy. 
   
   "The court found that there was an immediate danger to those three children and granted us emergency custody," said County Attorney Amy Strickland. 
   
   "Both of them had left the children home alone. What was reported was that they had left to get a pizza. The children were left at home for an extended amount of time and that's when obviously the child somehow managed to be inside an oven," said Estella Olguin with CPS. 
   
   "She was a sweet baby," said Gina Dennis, the child's grandmother. "This is unexplainable. I have no words." 
   
   CPS told the judge the 5-year-old girl claims to have been sleeping when it happened. The case worker also said one of the 3-year-old children took responsibility for putting the baby in the oven. 
   
   "We're still going to be working with the children. Part of that is going to be counseling to see if we can help them deal with those memories and what happened," said Strickland. 
   
   The children's attorney said the 5-year-old was in one home and the other two children were in another home. 
   
   Police questioned the mother and her boyfriend. It's unclear if they'll face charges. 
   
   The next hearing was set for Dec. 2. ||||| Fredrick Price came to the apartment complex on Sterlingshire looking for his two kids Thursday morning, both three years old. When Eyewitness News first talked to him, he had no idea they were among the children left alone in unit 115 Monday night. That's where 19-month-old J'Zyra Thompson died after being placed in an oven."I need to know where they are, I haven't heard from my children in months," said Price. " I've been trying to contact Racquel."Price is the ex-boyfriend of Racquel Thompson. Police believe she left her four kids, all under five years old, home alone Monday night. That's when little J'Zyra, seen on Thompson's Facebook page with big eyes and a bright smile, ended up in the oven. The toddler burned to death with three other kids in the home. She died without ever knowing a father."She was a cute little baby, I just didn't know if that was my daughter or not," said Price, who has never taken a paternity test relating to her ex-girlfriend's youngest child.Court records obtained by Eyewitness News show Child Protective Services are concerned with a number of issues relating to Thompson and her boyfriend. Records show Thompson told officials she often left the kids home alone to drive her boyfriend to work at a pizza place. Monday night, Thompson and her boyfriend left to go get Dominos Pizza for takeout, and stopped at Walgreens to pick up a prescription. Case workers say the couple left the four kids home alone without telling a grandmother who lived in the same apartment complex."It's very irresponsible, someone should have been here or I should have gotten a phone call, come and get my children." Price says his two children had been staying with Thompson because he lost his job a few months ago. He says he has since tried to contact Thompson on the phone and via Facebook, but she has not responded.Court records show prices two kids, just three years old, told investigators that one of them put the baby in the oven, and the other turned it on. Records show the children told CPS workers they made the oven "hot", and that the baby was kicking the oven door while inside. Records also show Thompson tried CPR when she got home. But it was too late, the child had multiple burns.CPS said no suitable relatives can care for the three surviving children from the home, so they are currently in foster care. Thompson also has an older child who lives with his father. In addition, she is seven months pregnant with her current boyfriend's child. Thompson apparently also drove the kids without a license nor car seats.Meanwhile, Price asked Eyewitness News about his two children. We told him they are in foster care, and he told us he will contact CPS to see if he can take custody of the children."I have to go get them. I have to go and get them," he said.No charges have yet been filed against Thompson or her boyfriend, though CPS workers said in their court filings that criminal charges are expected.
target: – An absolutely awful story out of Houston, where police say four children were left alone Monday night and their mother came home to find one of them dead. The two 3-year-old siblings of the 19-month-old little girl who died, J'Zyra Thompson, told authorities that one of them put the baby in the oven and the other one turned it on and made it "hot," ABC 13 reports. J'Zyra, they said, kicked the oven door while she was trapped inside. The oldest sibling, 5, was apparently asleep at the time, Click2Houston reports. When Racqual Thompson, the children's mother, returned home from going out with her boyfriend to get takeout pizza and pick up a prescription, she attempted CPR, but it was too late. J'Zyra died of multiple burns. Police say Racqual Thompson had left the children without informing a grandmother who also lived at the apartment complex. The three surviving children are in foster care, as CPS could not find suitable relatives to care for them. Criminal charges are expected, though none have yet been filed. (In Kentucky, an arrest has been made in the killing of a girl who went missing at a football game.)