-"Mother who dumped baby in O.C. restaurant trash bin gets 15 years" by Rick Rojas
- Published on November 9, 2012
- The Los Angeles Times
- http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/11/mother-sentenced-killing-baby.html
On December 22, 2009 a baby girl was born to grow and have her own life. However, that idea and purpose was vanished once her own mother had killed her. When women give birth, it is usually in a hospital, where the baby can be treated right after it is born and can be in a safe environment. Except, how can that happen, when a mother could care less about her own baby that only got to live no more than half an hour? It is not usual and it is not an innocent act for a mother to suffocate, kill, and throw away her own baby as if it is an object. Juana Perez Valencia was only nineteen when she gave birth to her daughter in her workplace, a Mexican restaurant's restroom. The day after giving birth, Valencia was treated at the Anaheim Hospital and lied saying that she had fallen instead of given birth. After being contacted by the hospital, sheriffs from the Orange County Department had later on found the baby in the back of the restaurant's garbage bin. Two years later, Valencia is found guilty with murder and child assault with fifteen years in jail. Valencia's punishment is not surprising to me. She deserves every bit of it and more than what she got for hurting her innocent baby, who never got the chance to live.
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