A couple in Texas allegedly tried to resurrect their two-year-old child at a home church before taking the body across the border to Mexico for burial , police said on Thursday . Police went to a home on March 26 in Balch Springs , Texas , to do a welfare check and were told by residents that a two-year-old child had died and a 'rising ceremony ' performed , according to CBS . The ceremony was an attempt to resurrect the child , police claimed , and took place on March 22 . Police went to a home on March 26 in Balch Springs , Texas , ( pictured ) to do a wellness check and were told that a two-year-old child had died and the body returned to Mexico . Police were now investigating . Lt Mark Maret told CBS : 'We don ’ t know if this was to try and resurrect the spirit of the child and we don ’ t know if this was to try and resurrect the child themselves or what exactly that service or ceremony encompasses . ' The child 's parents took the body to Mexico the following day . A phone number for the single-story home had been disconnected . A neighbor told Daily Mail Online on Friday that five children under the age of ten , both boys and girls , were also living at the home and had been taken away by Child Protective Services . Joy Donaldson said that she once complained to the woman who lived at the home about two of the boys , who had been bothering her dogs . The woman , whose name she did not know , told her that the children did not know any better 'because they had been taken off the streets of Mexico ' . A second neighbor , Jean Turnipseed , told Daily Mail Online on Friday that she had heard that church services were taking place at the home on Saturdays and Sunday nights , where people were being charged at the door . Unconfirmed reports have suggested that the two-year-old boy , whose name is unknown and who neighbors had not seen , may have died either of starvation or of a fall from a chair last week . Emergency services do not appear to have called until police received an anonymous tip four days later . Multiple calls to the Balch Springs Sheriff 's Department went unanswered on Friday . Police refused to release names but an investigation is underway involving both state and federal authorities . According to public records , a branch of the Iglesia Internacional Jesus Es El Rey Church is associated with the home . Calls to church representatives went unanswered on Friday .
Police went to a home on March 26 in Balch Springs , Texas , to do a welfare check and were told by residents that a two-year-old child had died . Neighbor told Daily Mail Online that a woman at the home claimed that five children at the home 'were off the streets of Mexico '