Sentenced: Oxnard Couple Strangled Newborn Baby Because They Didn't Want It

[Sugar Cookie]

Sept. 30, 2019
The incident was reported on the morning of July 19 at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Oxnard. Hospital staff phoned Oxnard police around 7:53 a.m. after discovering suspicious injuries. The boy, Diego Villa-Torralba, was in critical condition when police were called and died later that night. Authorities believe he was strangled until he was unconscious about 12 hours after his birth.

They took the time to name him.. But didn't want him?!

They probabaly didn't name him until they got to the hospital and tried to say his injuries were a complication of birth.

 

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They probabaly didn't name him until they got to the hospital and tried to say his injuries were a complication of birth.

@Sugar Cookie .. I thought this all happened while in the hospital for delivery?

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Two individuals accused of the strangulation death of a newborn boy almost four years ago in Oxnard have pleaded guilty and face lengthy prison terms, Ventura County prosecutors announced Monday.

The child's mother, Andrea Torralba Camacho, 24, pleaded guilty in January to second-degree murder. Then on Monday, David Luna Villa, 24, who reportedly was her boyfriend, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and dropped his bid to go to trial.

He faces a sentence of 25 years to life in prison, while she faces a sentence of 15 years to life, prosecutors said.

The child died in July 2019 at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Oxnard shortly after Camacho delivered him, The Star reported that year. The couple had moved to Oxnard from Oaxaca, Mexico early that year after Camacho was allegedly raped by another man and became pregnant, prosecutors said.
The baby was born July 18, 2019 but was pronounced dead the next day after the strangulation, prosecutors said.

Camacho was allowed by the prosecution to plead guilty to second-degree murder. Prosecutors took into account medical evidence that she was suffering from post-partum depression as well as the possibility that she had been sexually assaulted, said Amber Lee, the senior deputy district attorney handling the cases against both defendants.

She had received prenatal care, but showed no interest in the child after the birth and her depression may have left her unable to bond with the child, according to prosecutors.

Lee said she did not know why Villa dropped his court fight and pleaded guilty but suggested that he recognized he had a weak legal position.


"He admitted to what he did at the time, and he wasn't going to be offered anything less (by the prosecution)," she said.

Initially, Camacho tried to suffocate the baby in her hospital room on the night of July 18, 2019, while Villa tried to strangle him and break his neck, Lee said. When they noticed the baby was still moving, Villa removed the child from the mother's grasp, sat down on a piece of furniture and pressed into the child's neck for approximately five to 10 minutes, Lee said.


The baby named Diego was revived in the hospital's intensive care unit but pronounced dead the next day, she said.

Pair admits guilt in newborn's death in Oxnard

Two individuals accused of killing a newborn boy four years ago both face lengthy prison terms.

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[Sugar Cookie]

These two need to have the strongest sentences possible.

They could have just left the baby at the hospital and crawled back into what ever hole in the world they came from.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A woman who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of her newborn son four years ago at an Oxnard hospital was sentenced Thursday to 15 years to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Andrea Torralba Camacho, 24, appeared in person in a blue jail uniform during a brief hearing in a Ventura courtroom but did not speak on the sentence or show any visible emotion.

Prosecutors said the baby named Diego was strangled in July 2019 in Camacho's hospital room at St. John's Regional Medical Center about 12 hours after she delivered him.

Camacho was allowed to plead to the lesser charge of second-degree murder because prosecutors took into account medical evidence that she was suffering from post-partum depression as well as her allegation that she became pregnant after being raped by another man.

She will be eligible for her first parole hearing in 11 to 12 years, according to Amber Lee, the prosecutor on the case.

Mother sentenced in strangulation death of infant son at Oxnard hospital

A woman who pleaded guilty to the murder of her newborn boy in 2019 in Oxnard was sentenced Thursday. The judge had strong words for her.

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[Sugar Cookie]

The final chapter of a tragedy played out Tuesday when an Oxnard man was sentenced in connection with the death of a baby boy.

24-year-old David Luna was sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison after pleading guilty to First Degree Murder for killing little Diego just hours after the infant was born at Saint John's Medical Center in Oxnard in July of 2019.

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