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Woman charged with attempted murder of baby boy

Cynthia Merrill Artis · Tuesday, August 23rd 2011 at 6:57PM · 446 views
Los Angeles (CNN) -- Police in Orange, California, have charged a woman with one count of attempted murder for allegedly throwing a seven-month-old baby boy from a children's hospital parking garage Monday night, according to a statement from local authorities.

The infant, who was rushed to a trauma center, remains in critical condition, police said.

Sonia Hermosillo, 31, was detained shortly after the incident and remains in custody, Orange police said in a statement Tuesday. No bail has been set, authorities said.

A woman walking near the Orange County Children's Hospital saw the infant fall from the second level of the garage and called police, Sgt. Dan Adams said.

Investigators later interviewed several witnesses and reviewed a surveillance video from the garage. The image of a license plate on a 2000 Chevy Blazer seen leaving the garage shortly after the incident led police to Hermosillo.

Authorities found an empty child seat in Hermosillo's vehicle, according to the statement. Hermosillo's husband reported earlier that both his wife and their seven-month-old son were missing, the statement said.

CNN's Erica Henry contributed to this report

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Cynthia Merrill Artis Tuesday, August 23rd 2011 at 6:57PM

what's happening to these young mothers???

MIISRAEL Bride Tuesday, August 23rd 2011 at 9:49PM

Bee...this mother is insane! No one in there right mind could possibly do such a thing. I would go on to say she may have been demonic! She is not a normal mother by a long way!

Jen Fad Wednesday, August 24th 2011 at 12:44PM

@ Sister Cynt,

Statistics show that mothers are the highest perpertrators of murder of their children.

According to a 2009 report from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, that year 27.3 percent of child deaths resulting from abuse were perpetrated by the mother, compared to only 14.8 percent of fathers. Mothers and fathers acting together accounted for 22.5 percent of child deaths. According to these same statistics only 2.3 percent of fatalities were committed by a parent’s male partner.

The reasons mothers kill their children vary. Some ignore or hide pregnancies, some abuse or neglect their children and some are victims of domestic violence and see the murder/suicide as an escape. Some, as in the case of Andrea Yates, suffer from extreme mental illness. Nearly all these women find themselves very isolated, according to the AP story.

http://blog.chron.com/momhouston/2011/04/m...

Jen Fad Wednesday, August 24th 2011 at 12:46PM

Here's another one...

[...We should detach from the idea of universal motherhood as natural and see it as a social response," Nancy Scheper-Hughes, medical anthropologist says. Women in jail reported that no-one believed them when they said they wanted to kill their children. "There's a collective denial even when mothers come right out and say, "I really shouldn't be trusted with my kids."

A look at the rolls of women who are currently on death row, and the crimes that put them there, shows that women who kill their children are indeed not as rare as we would like to believe. Of the 49 women on death row, 11 killed children:...]


Women Who Kill Their Children
11 Women Are on Death Row for Killing Their Kids
http://crime.about.com/od/female_offenders...









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