On Wednesday, the staff at Anaheim Medical Center became suspicious of the story given them by Juana Perez Valencia, 19, who though showing all of the signs, claimed she had not just given birth. Orange County deputies arrived and questioned her, eventually finding the corpse of her newborn daughter in the dumpster behind Sombrero’s restaurant, where Valencia works as a waitress.
Apparently, Valencia gave birth to the girl on Tuesday night in the restaurant’s bathroom, and allegedly placed the baby into a plastic bag, before tossing her into the dumpster.
An autopsy concluded that the baby had in fact been born alive and healthy.
Deputy District Attorney Ebrahim Baytieh told the Orange County Register that the Mexican national had concealed her pregnancy, and was fully aware that she could have simply handed the baby over to authorities with no questions asked, but instead chose to let her die in a trash bin.
The Orange County District Attorney‘s Office issued the following statement: "The baby girl was born alive. Baby Doe weighed 6.3 pounds and was 17 inches long. The defendant is accused of murdering the baby, putting Baby Doe in a plastic bag, and throwing her body in a dumpster behind the restaurant."
Valencia has been charged with murder and currently sits in the Orange County Jail awaiting her arraignment next week. If convicted, she faces a sentence of 25 years to life. Prosecutors are seeking $1 million bail.
Comments
A Mexican national? Kick her out of my country.
Another grim tragedy at the feet of our elected leaders that have done virtually nothing to enforce immigration laws since the failed 1986 amnesty.
Louis Gutierrez where are you now? You want to bring people into our country like this? All you need is a visit from some patriots and a little rope.
OH WE ARE SUCH FAMILY LOVING,WE COME HERE FOR A BETTER LIVING??WHO WAS THE FATHER OF THE BABY? HE DAD OR MAYBE HER UNCLE??THROW HER IN THE DUMPSTER!!!!!!!!
Don't kick her out of the country,she'll just go home and her other uncle will get her pregnant again. Put her in a plastic bag and dump her in the middle of the ocean for the sharks to eat! The round up her Catholic God fearing family to watch.
Nice looking girl till you notice those cold hateful mestizo eyes. What kind of a person throws their baby in a dumpster?These are the people who are going to make our country better?
Typical illegal alien, they hate us and they hate themselves they are vermin. spqr-us.blogspot.com/ Put her and anyone who supports bringing more of these monsters in jail or better yet just shoot them.
the dumpster with full of unemployed Dem. politicains come november 2010!
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