Sentenced: 22MO Guillermo Cortez Jr. Was Returned To His Mother 2 Months Before Death

[Sugar Cookie]

Jessica Navarro, 31, was sentenced to15 years to life in prison for the 2016 murder of her 22-month-old son, Guillermo Cortez Jr.

On the morning of June 29, 2016 Navarro had repeatedly battered her son that morning because he was crying. After she was done beating him, Navarro left Cortez Jr. in his crib and reported he was unresponsive after checking on him again.

An autopsy report found he had suffered severe blunt force trauma, authorities said.

County social workers had previously removed Cortez Jr. from Navarro's home when he was two months old and placed him with a foster family. He was later returned to Navarro approximately two months before his death.

Ventura woman sentenced 15 years to life for 22-month-old son's murder

A 31-year-old Ventura woman convicted of killing her 22-month-old son in 2016 was sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison on Thursday.

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The file shows Guillermo was 2 months old when a social worker removed him from his parents' home in November 2014.

Both his mom and dad were using methamphetamine, his case file said.

Over the next year and a half, his parents took parenting classes, completed outpatient programs, went to required meetings, visited their children, and tested negative on random drug screenings.

By mid-April, a judge had decided Guillermo could go home with them.

Toddler returned to mother's care two months before his death

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[Sejanus]

Utter unrepentant evil.

 

[Muriel Schwenck]

Poor little tyke was probably crying for the safe family he'd been forced to leave behind.

 

[RavagesTheCabbages]

Wonky-eyed bitch should've just admitted she didn't want him messing up her lifestyle and not taken him back

 

[Busy Bee]

Again with these “parenting classes..” some of these people are just barely human and they think that classes are going to fix that? Two whole months! This woman has no understanding of a child and their needs at all! They should have just let her do supervised visits until he was an adult and let her pay support.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Part of the problem is that there is a financial incentive for the parents to plan for reunification with their children.

The planning agency assists the parents in obtaining cash assistance, food stamps and housing so that the reunification can occur.

Yes parents can change but the monitoring of these families needs to be more thorough.

 

[Satanica]

They probably need to put these idiot parents in charge of a goldfish before bringing the kids back in.

 

[Mountaineer95]

They probably need to put these idiot parents in charge of a goldfish before bringing the kids back in.

But you know they’d all fail!

 

[Sugar Cookie]

How she can be eligible for parole


Name
NAVARRO, JESSICA


Parole Eligible Date
January, 2027

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