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Posted on 12/17/2004 2:38:37 PM PST by atomic_dog
Girl let out of criminal custody
Farmworker who abandoned baby in toilet held for immigration
By GEORGE B. SANCHEZ
Herald Salinas Bureau
The young Oaxacan woman accused of abandoning her newborn outside Soledad is now being held for immigration officials after a judge released her from local criminal proceedings.
An immigration hold was placed on the woman when she was booked into Juvenile Hall in June after being arrested on charges of attempted murder and child abandonment, said Mike McNews, Monterey County probation services manager. The woman has since turned 18.
On Thursday, the court ordered her released from custody because of a ruling a day earlier that she is mentally incompetent to stand trial. Monterey County Judge Jonathan Price ordered her to undergo outpatient treatment technically intended to enable her to assist in her defense.
McNews said probation officials are required to notify U.S. Immigration officials of the pending release. If she is not picked up by federal agents by noon Saturday, she will be released to her sister in Greenfield, said Salinas lawyer Blanca Zarazua, a representative of the Mexican Consulate.
Less than a half-dozen similar immigration holds have been issued for Juvenile Hall inmates in the past 16 months, McNews said.
If she is picked up by immigration authorities, she will have the right to a bond hearing, which could result in her being freed from custody pending a formal immigration hearing, Zarazua said.
Zarazua spent Thursday afternoon trying to obtain an immigration bond for the young woman, as well as an immigration attorney to represent her if necessary.
"We just don't know what's going to happen," she said.
On Thursday morning, the Mixtec Indian was taken into Juvenile Court in Salinas. Thin and small, with fine black hair pulled into a pony tail, she was dressed in Probation Department-issued green pants, a blue T-shirt and plastic sandals. She was chained at her wrists and ankles while seated near her sister.
Price's decision was based on a report from the Monterey County Health Department's Behavioral Division. The woman's attorney, Miguel Hernandez, said criminal proceedings will be suspended until she is deemed mentally competent to assist her attorney in her defense.
"It was an excellent ruling," Hernandez said. "I think the judge should be commended. I'm glad we're at the stage where this young lady can be released to her family and receive the treatment she needs."
The young woman was charged with attempted murder and felony child abandonment after sheriff's deputies discovered her newborn baby in a portable toilet outside a lettuce field near Soledad on June 17. The infant girl survived and is in foster care.
A representative of the Mexican government, Bruno Figueroa, was on hand for the ruling.
"We're trying to help the most vulnerable population -- that is women, minors, and indigenous people who don't speak Spanish. She is all three," said Figueroa. "The most important thing is there are no more. Any story of a baby being abandoned is a tragic one."
To prevent another such incident, Figueroa said, the Mexican Consulate is working to inform Mexican immigrants of California's safe surrender law, which allows parents to abandon newborns at hospitals or other safe havens within 72 hours and not face prosecution. Figueroa and Zarazua said they are also looking into establishing a local branch of Project Cuddle, an Orange County-based nonprofit organization with a 24-hour, toll-free hotline that offers support and placement for babies who otherwise might be abandoned.
Meanwhile, the baby, named Milagros, Spanish for "miracles," is still in county custody, said Zarazua, who is also involved in the baby's legal proceedings. She could not say whether the girl, or even her sister, would gain custody of the baby.
"Everyone wants her to be in the best place possible," said Zarazua. "We don't know what that is right now."
She must not be mentally incompetant if she forgot she was supposed to go to the hospital to drop anchor.
I mean she must not be mentally competant.
"We're trying to help the most vulnerable population --
that is
women,
minors, and
indigenous people who don't speak Spanish.
She is all three,"
Anyone else find this quote STUPID?
You mean because BABIES are the "most vulnerable population"?
Wouldn't you love to DUH this woman right in the face? : )
I can't figure it out. Indigenous? Does the Mexican consulate consider an illegal in this country indigenous to the USA. If the Mexican consulate is so worried about her and the rest, why don't they all go HOME???
She'll do that as soon as she needs her own welfare check --- since she was still under 18, she's still under her mother's welfare checks.
We really don't need this type of person coming here at all --- she should quickly be sent home. You know she's not paying a dime for all those lawyers and counselors --- the taxpayers are. No mention of a husband either I notice, this whore probably has no clue who the father was.
You posted some horrible words.
I'm bumping anyway.
::sorry, I feel the same way::
Anyone who would leave a tiny helpless infant in a toilet is a whore --- married or not. But in this article there is no mention of a husband or boyfriend --- so this one is a whore that way also.
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A fine example of future welfare recipients for us to pay for for the rest of their lives. Maybe she's a "guestworker"... I thought illegal aliens were supposed to be deported. Oh, I forgot, that law is rarely enforced anymore.
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Speaking of whores (I DIDN'T say that. Fitz did. I merely, politely, bumped a fine freeper), did you see this one?
Teen mother charged with murder in death of twins
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1304140/posts
These stories are really making me sad.
When we raise our children to believe that nothing is their "fault" and they have no need for self responsibilty what is the result?
Babies being abandoned, tortured or killed. We have stronger rules for animal protection than we do for babies.
Try taking your dog to the Vet and say, "I want her litter aborted before birth because I have a national dog show that I must attend. I'm certain that having her breasts grow would just ruin the physical outline of her in the minds of the judges."
Imagine the unreasonable response.
If you dog is not in any serious medical condition that could possibly kill her, it is against the law for me to abort the litter. Eight months after she has delivered the puppies, I am allowed to 'fix' her.
Shocking, huh? A -4 week puppy fetus has about $25 of value in the scientific community. An intact human festus will go for $3000.
http://www.trosch.org/for/body-parts.html
Bump
Do you have this link with your links you keep to add on to threads for additional information?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1303782/posts?page=16#16
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