Sentenced: Seventeen months after 11-week-old Angel Marquez's death Dad has not been arrested

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Seventeen months after his death, charges have yet to be filed in the death of Eleven-week-old Angel Marquez.

The infant was taken to the hospital in October 2017 by his father because he had stopped breathing. However, according to an autopsy report, there were visible signs of trauma and his death was ruled a homicide.

Still, the main suspect, his dad, has yet to be arrested. The District Attorney's office and the police department say that's because it took about a year to get the OMI report. They say they are now ready to move forward.

"We've been building the case, getting [the] case ready, screening the case to determine whether or not charges are appropriate and anticipate presenting the case to a grand jury out of Rio Arriba County," Chief Deputy District Attorney Jennifer Padgett Macias said.

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Snail pace justice.

 

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Will this baby ever get justice?

 

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Two years after a two-month-old was killed, his parents are facing charges.

Angel Marquez was taken to Espanola Hospital in October 2017 by his father because he had stopped breathing. The father, also named Angel Marquez, claimed the child began to choke, but according to an autopsy report, there were visible signs of trauma and signs of previous abuse, including broken bones.

The medical investigator eventually ruled the death a homicide. Investigators with Espanola said there was a delay in getting that information back, and the District Attorney’s office said they weren’t made aware of the case until recently.

Now, they’re pushing forward, securing a grand jury indictment on the father and mother, Brittany Edmonds. Both are charged with child abuse resulting in death.

Parents facing charges two years after infant’s death

ESPANOLA, N.M. (KRQE) – Two years after a two-month-old was killed, his parents are facing charges. Angel Marquez was taken to Espanola Hospital in October 2017 by his father because he had s…

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A 28-year-old Española man will spend at least 30 years in prison after a judge sentenced him, Feb. 1, following a jury conviction of intentional child abuse resulting in death.

District Judge Jason Lidyard sentenced Angel Marquez to life in prison, the maximum sentence. In New Mexico, life means he will have to serve 30 years before being eligible for parole.

A jury convicted Marquez of the abuse resulting in death charge on Nov. 9, after an hour-and-a-half of deliberations.

Charges against child’s mother dropped

While Edmonds was also indicted on a charge of child abuse resulting in death, prosecutors dropped the charges in December 2022 because it was clear that she was not at home when the fatal injuries were inflicted, a result of a review by prosecutors consulting with medical professionals, First Judicial District Attorney’s Office Spokesman Nathan Lederman wrote in an email.

“The mother was at school and when she left the baby was uninjured except for a small bruise to his face,” he wrote. “The timeline developed by medical professionals and experts was that the baby would have been instantly and severely symptomatic once he sustained the abusive head trauma. The baby was in the sole care of the defendant during this time.”

Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Baby’s Death

A 28-year-old Española man will spend at least 30 years in prison after a judge sentenced him, Feb. 1, following a jury conviction of intentional child abuse resulting in death.

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