Mom 'dressed' newborn before abandoning him outside in grocery bag to die

A California parent volition walk much than a decennary successful situation for the decease of her newborn son, whom she stuffed successful a market container and abandoned extracurricular to dice aft keeping the commencement hidden from her hubby and different children.

A Monterey County justice connected Wednesday ordered Pamela Ferreyra to serve 13 years and 4 months successful a authorities correctional installation for sidesplitting the infant, who became known arsenic "Baby Garin."

Ferreyra's condemnation came aft she reached a woody with the territory attorney's bureau and pleaded blameworthy to 1 number of voluntary manslaughter and 1 number of felony kid maltreatment successful the boy's December 1994 death. She besides admitted to causing "great bodily injury" to her lad successful committee of those crimes.

According to a news release from the Monterey County District Attorney's Office, the "partial remains of a 2-to-3-day-old baby" were discovered disconnected Garin Road successful Prunedale, which is 90 miles southeast of San Francisco.

"An autopsy confirmed that the kid was calved alive, extracurricular of a infirmary setting, and that helium had not been fed for astir 24 hours anterior to his death," the merchandise states.

A antheral collecting cans successful the country discovered the boy's body, section NBC affiliate KSBW reported.

Investigators could not find the child's origin of death, and nary missing idiosyncratic study had been filed. Despite a thorough probe by the region sheriff's office, authorities could not find a viable pb successful identifying the boy's parents.

A acold lawsuit task unit established by the DA's bureau successful 2020 reexamined the lawsuit successful 2024, sending samples of the victim's DNA for further testing. Those tests revealed that Ferreyra was the mother.

In a consequent interrogation with detectives, prosecutors said Ferreyra admitted to abandoning the boy.

"Ferreyra told the investigators that she hid her gestation from everyone astir her, including her hubby and children," prosecutors wrote. "She admitted [the baby] was calved live successful her home. After helium was born, Ferreyra said she dressed him, enactment him successful her car, drove him to the distant Prunedale location, and near him there. She ne'er returned to the determination oregon investigated what happened to [the victim]."

The DA's bureau said Ferreyra's blameworthy plea marked the 10th condemnation for a acold lawsuit execution since prosecutors established the task force.