JERSEY RUIZ - 3 yo - / Convicted: Aunt, Irene Walker - Westminster CO

Aunt arrested in child's death


11:34 PM, Nov 16, 2012


ADAMS COUNTY - A Westminster woman accused of killing her 3-year-old niece was arrested Thursday.

Irene Walker, 27, is being held at the Adams County Jail on a $100,000 bond.

Sources told 9NEWS police were called to St. Anthony's North Hospital Sep. 17. They found an unresponsive 3-year-old girl with no visible trauma. She was later pronounced dead at the hospital.

A coroner report led police to believe she was murdered.

According to an arrest affidavit, the hospital staff advised police the child, Jersey Ruiz, was brought in by Walker and Ruiz's mother.

The affidavit says Ruiz was reportedly lethargic all day and vomiting before being brought to the hospital. She went to preschool earlier in the day, but her mom was called to pick her up.

According to the affidavit, when she was brought to hospital around 10 p.m. that night, she was not breathing and did not have a pulse.

Walker told police Jersey "fell down a lot" and "recalled a time when she (Jersey) broke her leg and never cried or complained and how tough she was," the affidavit read.

The Adams County Coroner told police Jersey's internal injuries were comparable to that of a "major car accident."

The coroner ruled her cause of death was "blunt trauma to the abdomen."

The affidavit says the child was treated at St. Anthony's Hospital at least three other times.

Walker is a stay-at-home mom who cares for her own two children. Walker is the sister-in-law to Ruiz's mother, according to the affidavit.

Walker is facing charges of child abuse resulting in death.


http://www.9news.com/news/article/300094/222/-Aunt-arrested-in-childs-death

They need to upgrade the charge to murder and still charge her with abuse. Why didn't the mother know her baby was being abused.

What a painful death this poor little baby suffered.

Woman arrested for child abuse, death of 3-year-old niece

Posted on: 8:59 pm, November 17, 2012, by Greg Nieto and Brooke Way, updated on: 09:50pm, November 17, 2012
BRIGHTON, Colo. — Miles away from the family home in Westminster; 27-year-old Irene Walker sits in the Adams County Jail.

Walker was arrested on Thursday and has been charged with child abuse and contributing to the death of her 3-year-old niece, Jersey Ruiz.

Walker was reportedly taking care of her niece when Ruiz was rushed to St. Anthony’s Central in mid-September. That is where Ruiz was later pronounced dead.

A Facebook page that has been labeled “In memory of Jersey Ruiz,” shows pictures of Ruiz as a happy, carefree little girl.

Records show walker has lived at a few different Metro-area addresses over the past few years. At one location, FOX 31 knocked on the door and heard a TV, but no one answered.

A neighbor who lives a few doors down did answer the door — but didn’t want to be identified.

“I’m a grandma, so I wouldn’t know what to do if somebody did something like that,” she said.

The chance to hear Walker’s side of the story may take a while. She is being held at the Adam’s County Jail on $100,000 bond.

FOX 31 reached out to Walker at the jail for a statement, but she denied talking to reporters about what happened.

http://kdvr.com/2012/11/17/woman-arrested-for-child-abuse-death-of-3-year-old-niece/

I tried to look for the facebook page for photo's but it's gone now. This link above has a video showing the gorgeous little angel. My heart cries for her.
William

http://www.newcomerdenver.com/obituary.aspx?src=value&obitid=60952&name=Jersey+Angelina+Ruiz&city=Denver&st=CO


I hope she gets proper justice.
William

Woman Gets 16 Years In Prison For Killing Niece


September 5, 2014 2:26 PM



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BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A woman accused of killing her 3-year-old niece by stomping on her abdomen has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.

The Adams County District Attorney’s Office says 28-year-old Irene Louise Walker was sentenced Friday for the Sept. 17, 2012, death of Jersey Ruiz. Walker pleaded guilty in July to negligent child abuse resulting in death.

Prosecutors say Walker’s daughter told police she saw her mother stomping on Jersey’s stomach, and medical experts compared the trauma the girl suffered to that typically seen in a high-speed car crash. Jersey died of blunt force trauma that severed the blood supply to her intestines.

Walker cared for Jersey and four other children while Jersey’s mother worked two jobs.


http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/09/05/woman-gets-16-years-in-prison-for-killing-niece/

Sentences like this turn my stomach.