Rosalia Alexia Garcia-Quintana

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rosalia lived in her La Junta with her father Salvador Quintana and Carmen Marquez his live in girlfriend. October 30, 2007 two and a half weeks after an anonymous caller reported to the Otero County Department of Social Services that Rosalia was being abused, Rosalia died of infection. An autopsy showed she also had pneumonia, was malnourished and had numerous bruises, abrasions and infected skin ulcers on her body.

 

Social workers had twice gone to the home where Rosalia lived to investigate the reported abuse. No one answered the door. The complaint was determined to be unfounded after Salvador Quintana called social workers to say that he had taken Rosalia to Texas with him to visit his ill father.There had been other reports of abuse of Rosalia prior to her death. Two occurred in 2004 but details of those reports and any actions taken are not available because the reports do not pertain to the death. Five months before Rosalia’s death there was a report that she had been abused while living with her biological mother. That report was determined to be unfounded.

 

Salvador Quintana, was sentenced to 26 years in prison after pleading guilty to negligent child abuse resulting in death. Carmen Guerra Marquez pleaded guilty to child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury and was sentenced to six years in prison.

 

 

 

 

 

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