Sandy Fernandez: is she arrested? Kent woman arrested for killing Baby Jose
Sandy Fernandez is being held at King County Correctional Facility on $1 million bond. In connection with the death of her 2-year-old son, King County prosecutors filed second-degree murder charges against a Kent woman on Monday.
She is accused of beating her child, inflicting significant injuries inside that led to infection, smashing her jawbone and skull, and smashing those two things.
According to court documents, Fernandez admitted to “becoming furious” with her child and slapping him across the abdomen before throwing him to the ground after initially denying hurting him during a police interview.
Baby Jose Murder
Is Sandy Fernandez in jail for the murder of Baby Jose?
Fernandez is jailed at the King County Correctional Facility on $1 million bond.
The bail, according to Casey McNerthney of the King County prosecutor’s office, “accurately depicts the depravity of the incident”, as the defendant “punched his 2-year-old son in the stomach several times before throwing him on the ground on a wooden floor. These assaults severely damaged my inner organs.
At the time of death, the victim had a cracked skull, broken jaw and internal bleeding. According to court documents, Kent police and the Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority provided assistance at the Hometown Suites on Pacific Highway South, where Fernandez worked and lived with her son and boyfriend.
Fernandez and her boyfriend allegedly testified that the man started vomiting the day before, according to court records. I didn’t start feeling awake until late at night.
The horrified and heartbroken Sandy Fernandez family
Jose’s grandparents, Shaun Earl and Jaime Bentley, claim they were unaware of the potential in Jose’s ex-partner. They were heartbroken and terrified. They allege that they and Fernandez had a strained relationship and that she forbade them and their child from involving themselves in Jose’s life.
Fernandez allegedly confessed to punching Jose twice in the abdomen during his interrogation, according to the prosecution. She also told police how stressed she became after leaving her mother’s house and said all she wanted to do was strangle her ex-boyfriend.
The prosecution alleges that Fernandez, her child and her new partner, Cristian Garcia, lived at the motel in Kent where she worked. Jose slept on a blanket on the hardwood floor.
His case will be continued on August 11. Fernandez had not been assigned a lawyer Monday night.
How did the Baby Jones murder happen?
When police informed Fernandez of the findings, she admitted to throwing her child to the ground the morning he fell ill because she was upset about being overworked and wanted him to go back to sleep.
She initially told detectives she didn’t want to ‘slam’ her son to the ground, according to court documents, but eventually admitted to beating him in April and the week before he died because he didn’t want to. not sleeping.
According to the probable cause documentation, on May 23, Fernandez called the 911 dispatch to report that her child was not breathing and unresponsive. When medical personnel arrived, they pronounced the boy dead and the child had bruises, investigators said.
