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WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — The pending trial of a Wichita Falls mother accused of exploiting, neglecting, and nearly starving her 6-year-old son has been delayed once again.

Catherine Lynn Jarvey, 34, of Wichita Falls, was set to face a judge and jury in June 2025 for charges of injury to a child with intent to commit serious bodily injury and exploitation of a child.

The charges stem from September 2022, when officers with the Wichita Falls Police Department said they discovered her 6-year-old son severely malnourished in a hotel room, weighing only 15 pounds, and emaciated to the point that one officer confused the child with a toy skeleton.

On May 16, 2025, presiding Judge Meredith Kennedy granted a motion for a continuance filed by Jarvey’s defense attorney, delaying the trial that was set to begin on June 2, 2025, in the 78th District Court.

According to the defense’s motion, a medical expert set to testify on Jarvey’s behalf will be out of the country for parts of May and June 2025, including the week of June 2, when the trial was previously set to begin.

The defense motion also claimed that Jarvey’s defense attorney has not yet received the report of a court-appointed forensic toxicologist who was tasked with reviewing lab results.

Jarvey’s trial is now set to begin on September 22, 2025.

The charges against Jarvey were originally filed in the 89th District Court. She was set to stand trial beginning on August 5, 2024, but just weeks prior, a motion requesting a continuance was granted, with no new trial date set.

Following the 2024 election of Judge Dobie Kosub, former First Assistant District Attorney for Wichita County, hundreds of cases pending in the 89th District Court were transferred to other district courts in Wichita County.

Jarvey’s case was transferred to the 78th District Court, and on February 7, 2025, Judge Kennedy set the trial date for June 2, 2025.