15 YEARS TO LIFE FOR KILLER MAN PLEADED NO CONTEST TO GIRL'S BEATING.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - A 22-year-old Lancaster man was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years to life in prison for the beating death of his girlfriend's 4-year-old daughter on Father's Day weekend. Gerardo H. Romero pleaded no contest last month to second-degree murder in the death of little Jasmine jasmine (jăs`mĭn, jăz–) or jessamine (jĕs`əmĭn), any plant of the genus Jasminum of the family Oleaceae (olive family). Avalos. The girl's mother, Raven Rayleen Gibbons Famous people named Gibbons include:
Gibbons will be sentenced in March and is expected to be given a suspended sentence A sentence given after the formal conviction of a crime that the convicted person is not required to serve. In criminal cases a trial judge has the ability to suspend the sentence of a convicted person. of eight years in prison. She will by that time have served the agreed-upon term of 270 days in jail. Before sentencing, the judge heard from Jasmine's father, Daniel Avalos, who was overcome with emotion, and her maternal grandmother, attorneys said. Avalos told Romero he didn't know what to say to him, attorneys said. ``He did say one difference between you and I is that you still have a daughter alive and I don't,'' Deputy District Attorney Flora Podratz said. The grandmother, Gibbon's mother, who now has custody of the defendants' 2-year-old, said she and others in her family miss Jasmine terribly and hope God will forgive Romero for what he had done, Podratz said. Romero also was ordered to pay restitution In the context of Criminal Law, state programs under which an offender is required, as a condition of his or her sentence, to repay money or donate services to the victim or society; with respect to maritime law, the restoration of articles lost by jettison, done when the in the amount of $5,140 to help pay for funeral expenses and mental health services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract incurred by family members of the victim, Podratz said. Coroner reports showed evidence of prior abuse of the victim, prosecutors said. Sheriff's deputies were sent to the couple's Lancaster home in the 300 block of East Lingard Street the morning of June 19 after Gibbons called 911. The girl was taken to Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Gibbons told investigators that before making the 911 call, she had called a hospital to ask some questions, presumably pre·sum·a·ble adj. That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster. because of the condition her daughter was in, prosecutors said. The 911 call was placed at 8:37 a.m. on June 19, and the hospital call was made sometime that morning or the previous night. The beating could have occurred either June 18 or 19, prosecutors said. Gibbons and Romero were arrested June 19. Karen Maeshiro, (661) 267-5744 karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com |
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