Sentenced: Chimayo Man Placed Pillow On Crying Infant's Face So He Would Not Be Disurbed While He Slept

[Sugar Cookie]

Steven Serrano, 22, admitted to placing a pillow on his crying infant son's face so he wouldn’t be disturbed while he slept. The baby later died.

Medical investigators said they noticed bruising on the baby’s face and neck, along with irregularities around the crown of the baby’s head, according to court documents. When officers questioned the couple separately, they reportedly gave inconsistent statements.

Serrano is charged with intentional child abuse.

“I didn’t mean for that to happen bro,” Serrano told officers. “It’s not a heavy pillow at all.”

The boy’s mother 19-year-old Athena Savell was also arrested.

The documents state that Savell’s father, Michael Lawhead, arrived at the hospital and argued with his daughter. When officers asked him what the argument was about, he showed them text messages between Savell and another family member, which stated Serrano would hold his hand over the baby’s mouth and would throw him on the bed.

Lawhead told officers family members were worried that Savell was involved with the baby’s death. One of the family members also told investigators that Savell had “anger issues.”

When Savell was questioned about the text messages, she said she didn’t mean to say Serrano was suffocating the baby, just that he would put a blanket over the baby and hope the child would “pass out,” according to court documents.

Savell also said Serrano had anger issues. She said there were times when he got extremely angry and would go outside to punch trees.

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Dad said he placed pillow over infant so he could go to sleep

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[Sejanus]

Fill his lungs with cement

 

[Sevens My Charm]

Fill his lungs with cement

Asbestos.. so he can live awhile and suffer..

 

[Busy Bee]

The male said ” I didn’t mean for that to happen “ I think he’s old enough now to know that preventing a person from breathing will cause death! The female should be charged too, she knew he hurt the infant!

 

[Granmaw]

I hope both of these POS never have another peaceful night's sleep for the rest of their pathetic (and hopefully short) lives. I get that you can get so tired caring for a baby that all you want is to sleep. I get that. But you don't put blankets or pillows or your hands or anything over their little faces to get it, and you DAMN sure don't kill them!!

 

[Ramona the brave]

she didn’t mean to say Serrano was suffocating the baby, just that he would put a blanket over the baby and hope the child would “pass out,” according to court documents.

Right, that's totally different then.

 

[Inferus]

If the lazy fuck slept anymore he'd be in a grave. Even Van Winkle thinks he's a lazy fuck.

 

[Donut Whisperer]

It would serve that “mother” right if her angry father and the rest of her family never said a kind word to her again. She didn’t protect their grandchild, nephew, cousin. She deserves no more from them than she was willing to give the baby she gave birth to.

 

[Muriel Schwenck]

Chimayo has plenty of hick trash people once you drive past the very picturesque and touristy part and the working farms.

 

[BuffettGirl]

It would serve that “mother” right if her angry father and the rest of her family never said a kind word to her again. She didn’t protect their grandchild, nephew, cousin. She deserves no more from them than she was willing to give the baby she gave birth to.

I'm not sure they have two active brain cells between them... not that I disagree with you. Kill them both, slowly.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Baby Killer and the Egg

 

[Sugar Cookie]

An infant died on June 23, after medics responded to a call reporting a female child who was choking and not breathing. The death marks the second such incident in which the mother, identified as Athena Savell, 21, of Chimayó was involved.

Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s Cpl. Chris Gurule was also en route to the scene, when he heard on his radio, that the ambulance and medics arrived on scene at the Chimayó Country Store and the child was picked up there, put in the ambulance and taken to the Española Presbyterian Hospital.

“...I was advised that CPR was still in progress, as ambulance (sic) arrived at the Espanola Presbyterian Hospital I witnesses (sic) a female straddeling (sic) the body of the infant still performing CPR into the ER,” Gurule wrote in his incident report. He wrote that numerous nurses and doctors attempted life-saving measures on the child to no avail and after more than half an hour, an unidentified doctor called the time of death at around 10 p.m.

The child, later identified only by the initials, E.L., is the second child of Savell who has been rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead shortly thereafter.

Death of Steven Serrano III

The first incident occurred on Oct. 14, 2020 and Savell was charged with intentional abuse of a child (resulting in death) under 12. She did not enter a plea in that case and it was dismissed by the prosecutor on Jan. 13, 2021. Savell had been on full house arrest since Oct. 21, 2020. She was released from house arrest on Jan. 12, 2021, according to online court records.

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When Gurule spoke with Savell regarding the June 23 incident, she said she checked on E.L. around 7:30 p.m., as she was sleeping in her bed. At 8 p.m., Savell said she found E.L. lying on the bed in vomit and instantly tried to resuscitate her because she was not breathing, his report said. Savell then ran to the phone and called Vigil, who drove her and the child to the area where the ambulance met them.

“Office of Medical Investigation Christopher Martinez was called out and arrived at 2143,” Gurule wrote. “OMI did his initial screening and body visual observation which showed no broken bones, lacerations or bruising. Cause of death was still unconclusive as E.L. would be transferred to an autopsy in Albuquerque New Mexico Office. Chris Martinez stated there was nothing suspicious at this time and E.L. would be sent to ABQ for autopsy.”

As of press time, Savell had not been charged with a crime in the death of E.L.

Same Home: Two Babies Found Dead

An infant died on June 23, after medics responded to a call reporting a female child who was choking and not breathing. The death marks the second such incident in

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[Sugar Cookie]

A Chimayó man charged in the 2020 death of his infant son pleaded guilty this week to a lesser child abuse charge that exposes him to up to three years of incarceration.
Under the plea agreement 26-year-old Steven Richard Serrano accepted Thursday, he also can argue for a conditional discharge and a probated, or suspended, sentence. His sentencing date has not yet been set.
Serrano’s original charge, intentional child abuse resulting in death, was a first-degree felony count that carried a potential life sentence. He pleaded guilty to a third-degree felony, “child abuse recklessly caused not resulting in great bodily harm or death.”

Law enforcement charged both Serrano and the child’s mother, Athena Savell, 23, after arriving at their home to find Serrano performing CPR on their 1-month-old son, Steven Richard Serrano III, who was unresponsive and not breathing.
The couple initially told Rio Arriba County sheriff’s deputies the elder Serrano had put the baby in his crib and dozed off himself and then awoke to find the child unresponsive, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. The baby also had bruising around his face and neck, the affidavit states.

Serrano later confessed to placing a pillow over his son’s face before he fell asleep, according to the affidavit.

An arrest warrant affidavit for Savell says Serrano told an officer he didn’t mean to suffocate the child but placed the pillow over the baby’s head because his own head was “pounding.”

Serrano admitted he put the pillow over the baby to “muffle the sound,” but said, “I didn’t mean for that to happen, bro, it’s not a heavy pillow at all,” according to the affidavit.

Chimayó man's plea deal in baby's death calls for sentence of zero to 3 years

Steven Richard Serrano, 26, confessed to placing a pillow over his son's face before he fell asleep, according to an affidavit.

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Last Name:	Serrano
First Name:	Steven
Middle Name:	Richard
Offender Status:	PROBATION/PAROLE

 

[HijabiGirl]

They need to seal her vagina shut with cement.