A San Antonio woman, 23-year old Gina Carranza, has been charged with capital murder for killing her newborn and then hiding the baby’s body in a halfway house dryer.
Disgustingly, at 23-years old, she already had a history of child abandonment:
Records show that Carranza was arrested and charged in 2006 with two felony counts of child abandonment. While court records show she was sentenced in that incident this January, they don’t indicate what the sentence was.
Police said Carranza secretly gave birth to the baby girl at the halfway house sometime between midnight and 7 p.m. Friday. No one at Victory House — which prohibits pregnant residents — knew Carranza was pregnant, police said.
“After giving birth, she admitted to detectives that she actually smothered the child,” San Antonio Police Officer Joe Rios told the San Antonio Express-News for its Sunday editions.
How did anybody not notice that she was pregnant?
Hopefully, the capital murder charge will stick and this woman will either spend the rest of her life in prison (where hopefully she won’t get pregnant, but that’s still no guarantee) or receive the death penalty.
Either way, the courts should make sure that this woman is never again able to have kids — whether that’s through forced sterilization or through incarceration.
Does Texas have one of those laws where you can drop a baby off at a hospital or fire station no questions asked? Other states have them but I wish they would publicize them more. They should be in every school, church, rec center, half way house, etc.
Left by Anonymous on May 12th, 2008 at 9:16 am