By Ricardo Roura
A Hispanic woman from East Los Angeles, convicted of the murder of her 4-year-old daughter, She was sentenced this Friday to a sentence of between 25 years and life in prison..
María del Refugio Ávalos, 40, was found guilty on March 19 by a jury in downtown Los Angeles on one count of second-degree murder and one count of assault on a minor resulting in death.
Jurors had notified Judge Karla D. Kerlin of the Los Angeles County Superior Court that They could not agree on the special verdict that the crime was committed voluntarily, deliberately and with premeditation.
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All three are necessary requirements to issue a conviction for first degree murder.
A few minutes after the prosecution agreed to withdraw the special opinion, the jury quickly found the Hispanic mother guilty of the lesser charge of second degree murder.
The girl’s relatives identified her as Mía González, 4 years old, while in the criminal complaint she was mentioned only as “Mía G.” whose body was found a little over two years ago unconscious inside a vehicle in East Los Angeles.
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According to the records of the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Department, Mía died as a result of the combination of strangulation and a puncture wound to the wrist.
Deputy Prosecutor MacKenzie Teymouri said the girl was cold and had been dead for several days when deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) were called on Jan. 25, 2024, saying the woman He put his daughter in “nice clothes and then ruined them with his blood.”.
“This was neither rash nor impulsive. She thought it, she did it“Declared prosecutor Teymouri in her final argument, arguing that Ávalos had turned Mía “into a pawn” in her conflict with the girl’s father.
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Defense attorney Donna Gómez replied that her client Ávalos fell into despair after the end of the family relationship that the girl’s father had promised her, and stated that she feared that the Department of Children and Family Services took away her daughter, whom “her mother loved very much”.
“He did the unthinkable without thinking about it. It was a hasty decision“added Ávalos’ lawyer to the members of the jury.
Mia Gonzalez She was found unconscious inside a vehicle in the 4800 block of Civic Heart Diagrama few blocks south of Highway 60 (Pomona), and rushed to a scientific institution, where she was pronounced dead.
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María del Refugio Ávalos was arrested at the scene of the incident. and later arrested on suspicion of murderaccording to Los Angeles County law enforcement.
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