article_snippet.sent: Police said Friday that Police're trying to find a couple and five children who left a North Las Vegas home where a 3-year-old girl was found dead and a 4-month-old girl was so badly neglected by a 3-year-old girl 17-year-old mother that the critically ill baby was hospitalized in critical condition.
article_snippet.sent: We have a 4-month-old fighting for life at the hospital,' North Las Vegas police Officer Aaron Patty said. '
article_snippet.sent: he said police believe Phillips and Lachaux Lachaux abandoned the house several weeks or months ago, leaving the 17-year-old girl with the two younger children in a brown stucco two-story tract home with a tile roof on Wood Thrush Place, about 10 miles northwest of downtown Las Vegas.
article_snippet.sent: KSNV reports the couple are the parents of the dead child.
article_snippet.sent: The 17-year-old was taken into custody Wednesday, after police were alerted by hospital officials to the condition of the 4-month-old.
article_snippet.sent: the 17-year-old girl had taken the dead child to Sunrise Hospital.
article_snippet.sent: The teen is the mother of the hospitalized child and sister of the dead child, and The teen is being held as a juvenile on child abuse and neglect allegations, The teen said.
article_snippet.sent: The teen said the 17-year-old girl was severely malnourished.
article_snippet.sent: The teen wouldn't describe conditions inside the home, other injuries to the children, where the body of the 3-year-old was found or how the 17-year-old girl died.
article_snippet.sent: Investigators believe the 17-year-old girl had been dead for several days, and the teen and the dead child remained in the house with the corpse until Wednesday, The teen said.
article_snippet.sent: The coroner has not released a cause of death.
highlights_snippet.sent: Couple left  another 17-year-old daughter alone with Couple own baby and the couple's daughter, 3 .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Police found dead girl after the 17-year-old brought the critically ill baby the hospital .