A 7-month-old baby thrown from the fourth floor of a hospital parking lot by his own mother died Wednesday, authorities said.
The child died the same day the mother, Sonia Hermosillo, 31, made an initial court appearance on charges of attempted murder and felony child abuse, a police spokesman said. The charges will now be upgraded to murder, Sgt. Dan Adams, spokesman for the Orange Police Department.
The baby died at the University of California, Irvine, Medical Center.
Prosecutors allege that Hermosillo removed a helmet that her son wore for a medical condition before tossing him from the parking structure at Children's Hospital of Orange County late Monday. She then went back inside the hospital to validate her parking, senior deputy district attorney Scott Simmons said after Hermosillo's hearing.
Hermosillo's husband, Noe Medina, told The Orange County Register in an interview Tuesday that his wife had been hospitalized for postpartum depression in June after she said she didn't want their son, Noe Medina Jr., who was diagnosed with congenital muscular torticollis - a twisting of the neck to one side.
The infant also wore a helmet to help correct his plagiocephaly, also known as flat-head syndrome, the Register reported.
"She didn't look at our son as normal," Medina said. "She didn't accept him. She didn't accept that he was like this."
Medina said the boy was receiving physical therapy twice a week and was showing signs of improvement.
Simmons, the prosecutor, said Hermosillo's behavior showed she intended to kill her son, regardless of her mental state.
"It's not like she's in a fetal position when the police arrived," he said. "She picks a specific location, drives to the top of the building (and) takes the helmet off. I'm sure she's depressed, the post-partum blues, I'm sure she had some of that."
"It's going to be up to a jury to decide if she had the wherewithal to inform the intent to kill."
Hermosillo made a brief court appearance Wednesday, but her arraignment was postponed until Sept. 16.
Orange County Superior Court Judge Joe Perez set bail at $1 million, but federal immigration officials have a no-bail hold to keep her in custody because she is in the U.S. illegally, said Jim Amormino, sheriff's spokesman.
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The child died the same day the mother, Sonia Hermosillo, 31, made an initial court appearance on charges of attempted murder and felony child abuse, a police spokesman said. The charges will now be upgraded to murder, Sgt. Dan Adams, spokesman for the Orange Police Department.
The baby died at the University of California, Irvine, Medical Center.
Prosecutors allege that Hermosillo removed a helmet that her son wore for a medical condition before tossing him from the parking structure at Children's Hospital of Orange County late Monday. She then went back inside the hospital to validate her parking, senior deputy district attorney Scott Simmons said after Hermosillo's hearing.
Hermosillo's husband, Noe Medina, told The Orange County Register in an interview Tuesday that his wife had been hospitalized for postpartum depression in June after she said she didn't want their son, Noe Medina Jr., who was diagnosed with congenital muscular torticollis - a twisting of the neck to one side.
The infant also wore a helmet to help correct his plagiocephaly, also known as flat-head syndrome, the Register reported.
"She didn't look at our son as normal," Medina said. "She didn't accept him. She didn't accept that he was like this."
Medina said the boy was receiving physical therapy twice a week and was showing signs of improvement.
Simmons, the prosecutor, said Hermosillo's behavior showed she intended to kill her son, regardless of her mental state.
"It's not like she's in a fetal position when the police arrived," he said. "She picks a specific location, drives to the top of the building (and) takes the helmet off. I'm sure she's depressed, the post-partum blues, I'm sure she had some of that."
"It's going to be up to a jury to decide if she had the wherewithal to inform the intent to kill."
Hermosillo made a brief court appearance Wednesday, but her arraignment was postponed until Sept. 16.
Orange County Superior Court Judge Joe Perez set bail at $1 million, but federal immigration officials have a no-bail hold to keep her in custody because she is in the U.S. illegally, said Jim Amormino, sheriff's spokesman.
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