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Baby thrown off multi-storey California parking garage dies
* From: NewsCore
* August 25, 2011 9:07AM
A SEVEN-month-old baby thrown from a multi-storey California
parking garage earlier this week died today.
The infant, named Noe Medina Jr, was thrown from the fourth storey
of a parking garage attached to the nearby Children's Hospital of
Orange County (CHOC) in Orange, California, on Monday night local
time, The Orange County Register said.
Following the fall, the boy was taken to the UC Irvine Medical
Centre in Orange - approximately 35 miles (56 km) south-east of
Los Angeles - where he died.
The baby's mother, Sonia Hermosillo, 31, was arrested early
yesterday after her car was spotted leaving the scene by
surveillance cameras and her husband called emergency services to
report that his wife and son were missing.
Ms Hermosillo is accused of driving the boy to the CHOC garage at
approximately 6.20pm local time on Monday and throwing him over
the edge.
She appeared in court today to face two felony counts of attempted
murder and child abuse. The non-English speaking Ms Hermosillo was
held on $1 million bail pending a formal arraignment on September
16.
The baby, according to the Register, had been diagnosed with
congenital muscular torticollis, a condition in which the head is
constantly tilted to one side. The baby also wore a helmet to
combat flat head syndrome.
A spokeswoman for the district attorney's office said that Ms
Hermosillo was accused of removing the baby's helmet before
forcing him over the edge.
Ms Hermosillo's husband, Noe Medina, said that his wife had been
in hospital in June after saying she no longer wanted her son.
"She didn't look at our son as normal," Mr Medina said yesterday.
"She didn't accept him. She didn't accept that he was like this."
Mr Medina said his wife had been taking medication for postpartum
depression and had attended her first therapy session that very
morning.
Read more at The Orange County Register.