ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – For years, including all summer long, KRQE News 13 has been reporting on the tragic deaths of children at the hands of their parents, and that includes the case of Estrella Miracle Montoya. Once again, it’s a case of the State of New Mexico’s Children, Youth, and Families Department pulling her from a loving home and placing her back in danger. KRQE News 13 sat down with the toddler’s aunt, Becky Davis, who fostered her, saying she begged CYFD not to put her back with her parents. They did, and less than a month later, she was dead.
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Davis is having a tough time coming to grips with the loss of her 1.5-year-old great niece. Estrella Miracle Montoya was born in 2024, and she weighed just one pound. Davis said she had meth, cocaine, and heroin in her system. “She had drugs in her system. Yes. And so she was very premature, too. She was 24 weeks premature.”…