In a lengthy response to a series of questions from Idaho News 6, the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare (IDHW) is defending its actions regarding the infant death case that landed parents Brian Lemke and Allysen Armenta in Canyon County Jail in December.
Armenta and Lemke are both charged with failure to notify or delay notification of death, injury to a child, destruction or concealment of evidence, and resisting or obstructing officers in connection with their child’s death, which happened only 12 days after birth. Bond is set at $500,000 for each parent.
Although an official cause of death has not been listed for the infant, named Benjamin, initial information in a probable cause affidavit obtained by Idaho News 6 shows that his death was likely due to suffocation…