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Delilah Urrutia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three year old Delilah Urrutia suffered head trauma, second-degree burns on her face, neck, chest, back and arms, cuts and bruises, and lost parts of three fingers. She died of blunt force trauma to the head. Delilah’s mother Yolanda Pena told authorities that Delilah had “accidentally tipped a pot of extremely hot water on herself,” which she said was on the kitchen counter. Pena did not seek immediate treatment for her daughter, No not at all she waited until Delilah was no longer breathing.

 

Pena told one of her two older daughters to pour hot water on Delilah for misbehaving while Pena was at work, causing burns over more than 30 percent of Delilah’s body. When Pena got home Delilah looked at her, which was not allowed “and that set her off," the prosecutor said. "Pena threw her against the wall, used a high heeled shoe.  (Pena's older daughters) said Pena continued to hit Delilah in the head at least 20 times. Pena then stuffed a stocking in Delilah's mouth, put a stocking over her head, bound her wrists and ankles and put her in a plastic bin like a piece of garbage. Pena than Pena put the bin in a closet and left home with her older daughter to visit her best friend. When they found Delilah dead later that night, her arms were up at 90- degree angles "because that is the way rigor mortis set her arms as she died in that plastic coffin," said Deputy District Attorney Lisa DiMaria.

 

It is aid that Delilah and her older sister would sometimes sit in the bathtub while hot and cold water was poured over them. Other times, Delilah was tied up in the plastic bin and put in a closet, with her mouth duct-taped, or tied up in the bathtub for days at a time.

Yolanda Pena was convicted of first degree murder, torture, assaulting a child causing great bodily injury and inflicting injury on a child. The latter count related to another daughter who was 12 at the time. A judge handed down two terms of life in prison.

 

http://patch.com/california/palmdesert/la-quinta-woman-convicted-of-torturing-murdering-3yearold-daughter

May 14, 2006 - June 25, 2009

 

Age: 3 Years

Location: La Quinta, California

          Suspect in death: Yolanda Guadalupe Pena, Mother

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