GUILTY SC - Judith Hernandez, 3 wks, beaten to death, Georgetown, 25 July 2006

[OneLostGrl]

The infant at the center of a child abuse case in Georgetown County has died, WBTW News13 is reporting....

http://www.scnow.com/midatlantic/scp/news.apx.-content-articles-BTW-2006-09-06-0009.html

Here is an older link-

A judge said Wednesday that a 2-month-old baby will remain on life support several more days because a decision has not been made to authorize a state agency to remove her from a respirator and feeding tube.

Judith Hernandez, who was 3 weeks old when she was rushed to the Medical University of South Carolina last month, is clinically brain dead, said Dr. Anne Abel, who testified during a motions hearing held in Georgetown family court...


http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/15403904.htm

 

[BhamMama]

That poor wee thing. She never got to even start to experience life. Breaks my heart.

I hope that the pieces of excrement that did that to her get what they deserve.

 

[michelle]

Poor baby....

 

[OneLostGrl]

What I don't understand is how and why her "parents" still had the right to decide what to do with her after THEY put her there to begin with!

 

[mum33004]

That poor wee thing. She never got to even start to experience life. Breaks my heart.

I hope that the pieces of excrement that did that to her get what they deserve.

I agree...

 

[Malapoo]

I guess technically, the [horrible] parents lawyer could argue THEY did not actually KILL the baby, the courts did. Won't carry any weight, but in this day & age when we must protect the guilty, it's very possible they'll argue that very detail. That and as long as the baby was "alive", there wasn't murder - yeah right, not for lack of trying. http://www.websleuths.com/forums/images/smilies/emotbanghead.gif

 

[OkieGranny]

From January 2011:

http://www.southstrandnews.com/article/20110114/GTT01/301149997/

In September 2007, the newborn’s father — 30-year-old Ramon Hernandez — pled guilty to killing her by throwing her against a wall inside their Maryville home in July of the previous year.

He was sentenced to 22 years in prison.