O.C. mom gets life sentence for pushing infant son off hospital parking structure, killing him

A La Habra mom was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years to life in jail for pushing her 7-month-old son to his dying from atop an Orange County hospital parking construction over a decade in the past.

Sonia Hermosillo, 42, advised the choose that she was sorry for killing Noe Medina Jr. in 2011 and requested in tears to be reunited together with her household, the Orange County Register reported.

“I’m asking for a chance to be with my daughters,” she stated by way of a Spanish translator. “Please, your honor, I do know that what I did was incorrect, however I remorse doing that from the underside of my coronary heart.”

Hermosillo was convicted by a jury final August of 1 felony depend of first-degree homicide and one felony depend of assault on a baby inflicting dying. She had entered a plea of not responsible and never responsible by cause of madness, triggering a separate trial to find out whether or not she was legally insane on the time of the incident.

A month later, the identical jury who convicted Hermosillo of first-degree homicide additionally discovered her to be sane on the time of the homicide.

O.C. Superior Court docket Decide Kimberly Menninger stated Wednesday that her solely choices for sentencing had been both probation or 25-years-to-life behind bars, including {that a} sentence of probation for killing a child was not a very good possibility, the O.C. Register reported.

“There isn’t a winner right here,” Menninger advised Hermosillo’s household. “This simply turned a tragedy and I’m so sorry for what you went by way of.”

On Aug. 22, 2011, Hermosillo drove her 7-month-old son, Noe, to Youngsters’s Hospital of Orange County within the metropolis of Orange and parked her automotive on the fourth flooring of its parking construction.

Child Noe was born with congenital muscular torticollis and wore a medical helmet to appropriate his plagiocephaly. His medical situations required him to obtain therapy on the hospital usually, however the toddler didn’t have an appointment scheduled that day.

Hermosillo eliminated Noe’s helmet and pushed him from the parking construction, the DA’s workplace stated. Prosecutors say she had the intention of murdering him.

The mom then walked contained in the hospital, validated her parking and drove away.

A witness who noticed the newborn falling by way of the air referred to as 911, and police responded to the scene.

Noe was taken to the trauma heart on the UC Irvine Medical Middle in crucial situation and died two days later.

Shortly after Noe was pushed off the parking construction, Hermosillo’s husband, Noe Medina, referred to as regulation enforcement to report that his spouse and son had been lacking.

Medina advised police on the time that his spouse had just lately been hospitalized for melancholy and was not allowed to be alone with the newborn. He stated she took Noe whereas he was watching the couple’s two different kids at their house in La Habra. He had not been instantly conscious of what had occurred however when he realized they had been gone, he referred to as police to report them lacking.

That night time, an Orange police officer noticed Hermosillo driving previous the hospital on Predominant Road and arrested her, officers stated.