Ashley Flowers

But as of this recording, we have not gotten a response.

And we also contacted the Tarrant County District Attorney's Office for clarity about whether additional charges would ever be pursued.

They did not give us an answer.

But we had our legal team look into this, and they confirmed that the DA could bring new charges against Brandon Hale any time they see fit.

It wouldn't even necessarily require new evidence.

DFPS did provide us with public records, but they didn't answer our specific questions about why JoJo's original case went the way it did.

I want to know why he was allowed back in that home.

How did a six-year-old boy die from lack of oxygen inside his own home while he was alone with the man who admitted to beating him with a belt?

And how did this happen less than a year after the system had already substantiated abuse?

There's been a resounding word throughout this entire episode.

Undetermined.

Undetermined cause.

Undetermined manner.

Undetermined answers.

There is one thing that was never undetermined.

Jojo mattered.

He mattered to his dad, his real-life superhero who he wanted to be like when he grew up.

And he mattered to the little girl who got to live more life and spend precious final moments with her family because of his organ donation.

And he mattered to the people who saw him every day at school, to the janitor who came to visit him while he was in the hospital because he said that Jojo never just walked by him like the other kids.

He always stopped and gave him a hug.