WJOL Learns Another Family Member Had Guardianship of Toddler Found Dead In Homer Glen Home, Father Charged And Charges Pending Against Mother

WJOL has learned that the 2-year-old who died in the home of her parents last week had a legal guardian. A close family member was given guardianship in July of this year. At the time of Trinity Weiher-Balen’s death, the guardian was not in the home. WJOL has learned the legal guardian recently moved of state. More charges could be filed against the legal guardian following the toddler’s death.

A Homer Glen father is being charged in the death of his 2 year-old daughter Trinity. Forty-nine year old Edward Weiher faces drug and endangerment charges after Will County Sheriff’s arrived at the home on November 6th and found the toddler unresponsive. Will County Sheriff’s spokesperson Kathy Hoffmeyer tells WJOL that Weiher was giving the child chest compressions but that she may have died more than 3 hours prior. The child’s mother 27-year-old Alexa Balen is also being charged but is currently in the hospital being treated for a medical contrition.

Hoffmeyer says once detectives arrived at the home in the 12200 block of West Thorn Apple Drive in Homer Glen they found it to be in deplorable condition.

There was garbage all over the place, with urine and feces spread about plus it was littered with drugs including heroin and cocaine. Hoffmeyer confirms there were at least 2 spent NARCAN containers near the unresponsive toddler.

A second child, age 6, was in the home as well and taken to the hospital being treated for fentanyl poisoning.

DCFS was immediately called. The mother is expected to be charged once she’s released from the hospital. The father is being held and more charges are expected to be filed once toxicology results of the 2-year-old are complete.