JAYDA DeLaROSA - 7 Weeks (2009) - San Antonio TX

The teenage father of a bruised baby found dead outside a fire station was jailed Thursday on a charge of injury to a child.
Fire Chief Charles Hood said the body was discovered during a shift change around 7 a.m. Wednesday.
Four firefighters and two paramedics who were at the station
when the abandoned infant was found were "very shocked," according to
Hood. Someone had rung the doorbell several hours earlier, but a staff
member who looked through the peephole did not see anyone outside, he
said.
The state's so-called Baby Moses Law allows an emergency infant
care provider to take possession of a child from a parent if the baby
appears to be 60 days old or younger. The parent must express that he
or she does not intend to return for the baby, according to the Texas
Department of Family and Protective Services.
The father, Ramiro De La Rosa, 18, was jailed on a charge of injury to a child/serious bodily injury.
A jailer at the Bexar (pronounced `BAYR') County Adult Detention
Center who declined to give her name said his bail was $100,000. There
was no record of an attorney for De La Rosa, the jailer said.
The body of the 2-month-old girl was discovered wrapped in a
pink blanket in a car seat. It was not immediately clear if the girl
was alive when she was dropped off, Hood said.
Autopsy results are pending.
A note left with the baby identified her Erica Laura Hernandez,
saying she needed medical attention, according to an arrest warrant
affidavit obtained by the San Antonio Express-News.
Police later determined the name of the child, who had bruises
on her face, was Jada De La Rosa, according to police spokeswoman Sandy
Gutierrez.
Information provided to the media, in an effort to locate the
parents, led to a neighbor recognizing the description of the baby and
notifying police, who arrested De La Rosa on Wednesday night.
Department spokeswoman Melissa Sparks said the doorbell
frequently is rung at the fire station, but personnel do not respond if
they do not see someone outside.
"We don't want to miss a person who is injured and needs help,
but we also don't want to put our firefighters in any unnecessarily
increased risk," Sparks said.

Just one day after she was found dead, neighbors have placed a candle and notes outside the home where Jayda De La Rosa lived.

The
infant's body was discovered outside a West Side fire station early
Wednesday morning. Information earlier had said the child was 10 weeks
old but later authorities said she was only seven weeks old.

The
baby's father, 18-year-old Ramiro De La Rosa, has been arrested and
charged with injury to a child in connection with the case. Baby
Jayda's 16-year-old mother has not been charged. However, police said
that could change, depending on what the medical examiner finds during
an autopsy on the infant.

A woman who lives near the couple said the baby's mother spoke to her Wednesday night after she
had been questioned by police.

"We just asked her what
happened," the neighbor said. "Then she said 'the baby stopped
breathing, and we took too long to take her over there to the fire
station. We were scared.'"

Another neighbor said the
child's mother seemed more worried about what is going to happen to her
boyfriend than about losing her tiny daughter.

"She wanted to
use the phone and was asking for her boyfriend," said the neighbor. "We
told her 'No. They picked him up, and they're charging him for what
happened with the baby.' She started crying more for her boyfriend than
for the baby."

According to an arrest warrant affidavit, De La
Rosa admitted he choked Jayda and slapped her across her face after
becoming frustrated with her crying. The teen also said he had often
slapped her when he got mad.

Jayda's mother also has a 1-year-old boy. The boy is now in the custody of Child Protective Services.

The mother of Jayda De La Rosa, the 7-week-old girl who was found dead
outside a West Side fire station on Tuesday, was picked up by police
Thursday night.

Friday morning, the child's 16-year-old mother learned she would stay in juvenile detention for at least two more weeks.

The judge determined the teen mom should stay in custody until her next hearing, Oct. 9.

The
mother faces a charge of "injury to a child by omission" in connection
with the baby's death. Police say she didn’t stop her baby from being
hurt.

Ramiro De La Rosa, Jayda’s father, is in jail charged with injury to a child.

The couple's other child, a 1-year-old boy, remains in the custody of Child Protective Services.

Prosecutors indicated Friday they aim to
try as an adult a 16-year-old mother whose infant son was found dead in
front of a West Side fire station last month.
During a hearing at the juvenile detention center, state District
Judge Carmen Kelsey agreed to order a psychological assessment and
social evaluation for Julie Navejar before a Nov. 20 hearing to
determine her competency as an adult.
Jada De La Rosa was discovered by firefighters early Sept. 23.
Navejar and 18-year-old Ramiro De La Rosa, the child’s father, admitted
to heroin use, investigators said. The father also admitted to choking
and slapping the 7-week-old, police said.
Both have been charged with injury to a child. To be considered an
adult defendant, prosecutors have to show the classification is best
for the welfare of the community, attorney Raymond Deleon said.
If found to be an adult, Navejar likely would be transferred to the Bexar County Jail to await trial.

The teen mother of a malnourished infant
found dead in front of a fire station last year will be tried as an
adult, a state district judge ruled Friday.
Investigators said Julie Navejar, 16, admitted not seeking help for
her 7-week-old daughter, Jada De La Rosa, after the baby stopped
breathing at about 1 a.m. Sept. 23. She is being charged with injury to
a child by omission.
Instead, they said, Navejar and her teenage boyfriend, Ramiro De La
Rosa, spent several hours crafting a misleading note before leaving the
infant in a car seat outside a West Side station.
De La Rosa, 18, remained Friday in the Bexar County Jail awaiting
trial in connection with his daughter's death. He also is being charged
with injury to a child.
“I've seen a lot, but there's always something new and different,
and this crime shocks the conscience,” juvenile court Judge Carmen
Kelsey said before agreeing with prosecutors that Navejar should be
tried as an adult.
“There's no reason the mother of that child didn't take the baby to
the closest law enforcement person for help before that baby was so
sick she was going to die,” Kelsey said. “It's inexcusable.”
If Navejar would have been tried as a juvenile, the most punishment
she faced was being incarcerated by the Texas Youth Commission until
she was 19. But as an adult, she now faces up to 20 years in prison on
the second-degree felony.
During closing arguments for the hearing, prosecutor Khristina
Fielder argued there wouldn't be enough time to rehabilitate Navajar,
who she described as a heroin addict, in the juvenile system.
Prosecutors called to the witness stand San Antonio homicide
detective Jesse Salame, who described the baby as gaunt with sunken
eyes. She had bruising and burns on her face, a layer of skin was
missing from both feet and she had severe diaper rash, he said. Salame
also said the baby's right index finger was black — the possible result
of a burn.
Jada was found to be 4.5 pounds during her autopsy, he said. The
Bexar County medical examiner's office determined her cause of death to
be “cocaine toxicity combined with starvation resulting in terminal
pneumonia,” Salame said.
At the conclusion of the hearing, Navejar's bond was set at $100,000
and she was immediately transferred to the Bexar County Jail from the
Juvenile Detention Center.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/Teen_to_be_tried_as_an_adult_in_babys_death.html


16-year-old mother will be prosecuted as adult
By Craig Kapitan - Express-News
Web Posted: 01/09/2010 12:00 AM CST
The teen mother of a malnourished infant found dead in front of a fire station last year will be tried as an adult, a state district judge ruled Friday.

Investigators said Julie Navejar, 16, admitted she didn't seek help for her 7-week-old daughter, Jayda De La Rosa, after the baby stopped breathing about 1 a.m. Sept. 23. Navejar has been charged with injury to a child by omission.

Authorities said Navejar and her boyfriend, Ramiro De La Rosa, spent several hours after the baby died crafting a misleading note before leaving the infant swaddled in a car seat outside a West Side station.

De La Rosa, 18, remained Friday in the Bexar County Jail awaiting trial in connection with the baby's death. He has been charged with injury to a child causing serious bodily injury, a first-degree felony.

“I've seen a lot, but there's always something new and different, and this crime shocks the conscience,” juvenile court Judge Carmen Kelsey said before agreeing with prosecutors that Navejar should be tried as an adult.

“There's no reason the mother of that child didn't take the baby to the closest law enforcement person for help before that baby was so sick she was going to die,” Kelsey said. “It's inexcusable.”

The judge then set bail for Navejar at $100,000, and she was taken to the Bexar County Jail. Treated as an adult, Navejar is facing up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the second-degree felony.

During the hearing's closing arguments, prosecutor Khristina Fielder said there wouldn't be enough time to rehabilitate Navejar, whom Fielder described as a heroin addict, in the juvenile system.

San Antonio homicide Detective Jesse Salame testified the baby was gaunt with sunken eyes when she was found. She had bruising and burns on her face, a layer of skin was missing from both feet and she had severe diaper rash, Salame said. He also said Jayda's right index finger was black, the possible result of a burn.

Jayda's weight at the autopsy was 4.5 pounds, he said. The Bexar County medical examiner's office determined the cause of death was “cocaine toxicity combined with starvation resulting in terminal pneumonia,” according to the detective.
In an interview with police, Navejar said the couple never wanted Jayda, Salame testified.

“She told me that she knew she didn't feed the baby like she was supposed to,” he said, explaining that the teen described the infant as living a “solitary life” in which she was “alone in the bouncer or the stroller most of the time and nobody really paid attention to her.”

Defense attorney Raymond De Leon argued that it was a lack of sophistication and a lack of financial means that prevented the young parents from seeking immediate help. And it is De La Rosa, not Navejar, who is accused of abusing the baby, he pointed out.

“The father of the child was clearly the more culpable person,” De Leon said outside the courtroom.

http://www.ksat.com/news/21104660/detail.html
Affidavit: Slain Baby, Choked, Slapped
Ramiro De La Rosa Charged With Injury To Child
Jozannah Quintanilla, KSAT 12 News Reporter

POSTED: Thursday, September 24, 2009
UPDATED: 9:28 pm CDT September 24, 2009
SAN ANTONIO -- The father of a 7-week-old baby girl who was found dead in front of a fire station choked and slapped the child, an affidavit stated.

Ramiro De La Rosa, 18, admitted to police that he often hit his daughter, Jayda De La Rosa, because he was frustrated that she wouldn't stop crying, the affidavit stated.

The child was found in front of Fire Station No. 10 in the 1100 block of Culebra Road at around 7 a.m. Wednesday. According to the affidavit, De La Rosa and the child's 16-year-old mother dropped off the child because she wasn't breathing. They left a note that gave the wrong name of the baby but said she needed to be hospitalized. Jayda had visible injuries to her body and face, the affidavit stated. The couple also said they dropped off the baby because they were scared and didn't want to get in trouble.

After barricading himself in his home most of the day, De La Rosa was arrested Wednesday night. He was charged with injury to a child and was being held in lieu of $100,000 bond.

"If I would have known, I would have called the cops," said a neighbor, who didn't want to be identified. "But I didn't associate with them because I knew what kind of people they were."

The neighbor also said that the couple was acting strangely before Jayda was found.

"I saw them in and out (of the house)," the man said. "A lot of commotion."

A woman who identified herself as a neighbor said that Jayda's mother neglected the baby.

"She didn't have bottles for her. She would come ask for bottles. (But) I don't have kids and I don't have bottles," the woman said.

Jayda's mother also has a 1-year-old boy, who was taken into Child Protective Services custody. She has not been charged in the case.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/61395027.html

Baby in distress got no help
By Brian Chasnoff - Express-News
Web Posted: 09/25/2009 12:00 AM CDT
Weeks before a young father admitted to choking and beating his infant daughter, foreboding signs abounded.

Ramiro De La Rosa, an 18-year-old drug offender who had been a fugitive for more than a year, told a friend he didn't want his baby and thought he could sell her for cash, according to the friend, 17-year-old Joe Rodriguez.

The baby's mother, a 16-year-old high school dropout, relentlessly knocked at neighbors' doors and begged for money, once seeming disappointed when she received diapers instead, another neighbor said.

The home in which the young couple, the baby and their 1-year-old son were staying without paying rent appeared trashed and without furniture, according to a landlord who owns the property.

And then there was something Rodriguez noticed when the couple took the infant out for a stroll about two weeks ago.

“The baby had a bruise on her face,” he said Thursday.

Despite the signs, no one alerted Child Protective Services until Wednesday morning, when a paramedic found 7-week old Jada De La Rosa dead outside a West Side fire station a few blocks from the rental house in which the couple lived.
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another example of apathy - no one called the police on these parents or child services -

Mom, 16, will be tried as adult in baby's death
Jan. 9, 2010, 5:22PM

SAN ANTONIO — The teenage mother of a bruised and malnourished baby found dead outside a San Antonio fire station last year will be tried as an adult.

Juvenile court Judge Carmen Kelsey ruled Friday that Julie Navejar, 16, will face a second-degree felony charge of injury to a child by omission. If convicted, Navejar could face up to 20 years in prison.

Her bail was set Friday at $100,000.

Defense attorney Raymond De Leon said his client did not seek immediate help for 7-week-old Jayda De La Rosa because Navejar was poor and unsophisticated.

Navejar's 18-year-old boyfriend, Ramiro De La Rosa, remains jailed in Bexar County and awaits trial on a charge of injury to a child causing serious bodily injury. His bail was set at $100,000.

“I've seen a lot, but there's always something new and different, and this crime shocks the conscience,” Kelsey said in court. “There's no reason the mother of that child didn't take the baby to the closest law enforcement person for help before that baby was so sick she was going to die. It's inexcusable.”

Jayda was found dead in September outside a fire station. She weighed just 4½ pounds.

San Antonio homicide Detective Jesse Salame testified Friday that the baby was gaunt with sunken eyes and had bruising and burns on her face. The baby was missing a layer of skin on both feet and had severe diaper rash, Salame said. Her right index finger was black, a possible burn.

Salame said Navejar told police that Jayda lived a “solitary life” in which she was “alone in the bouncer or the stroller most of the time and nobody really paid attention to her.”

The Bexar County medical examiner's office determined her cause of death was “cocaine toxicity combined with starvation resulting in terminal pneumonia,” the detective said.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6807347.html

18-year-old takes deal in baby's death
Heroin addict and boyfriend, yet to be tried, left infant at firehouse.
By Craig Kapitan
ckapitan@express-news.net
Updated 09:42 a.m., Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Julie Navejar speaks with her attorney Raymond S. De Leon II (left) at the 289th District Court Monday September 12, 2011. Navejar has been charged with injury to a child causing serious bodily injury by omission. Navejar has been in custody for dropping off her dead infant in front of a fire station.
Photo: JOHN DAVENPORT/jdavenport@express-news.net, JOHN DAVENPORT / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS


A teen heroin addict who left her gaunt, bruised and already-dead infant wrapped in a pink blanket in front of a San Antonio fire station two years ago opted Monday to avoid a trial, instead pleading no contest to injury to a child by omission.
Julie Navejar, who turned 18 last month, wore a red Bexar County Jail jumpsuit with handcuffs shackled to a chain wrapped around her waist as she stood before state District Judge Carmen Kelsey, answering questions with “Yes, ma'am.”
In exchange for her plea, prosecutors have agreed to ask for no more than 12 years in prison when she is sentenced by the judge in November. She has applied for deferred adjudication probation.
Navejar was 15 when she gave birth to Jayda De La Rosa and had just turned 16 when emergency responders found the dead 7-week-old. She was certified last year to stand trial as an adult.
“Hopefully, this will make a statement not only to her ... but to young people in her position,” said prosecutor Jane Davis, explaining after the hearing that the district attorney's office plans to oppose probation. “If they take on the responsibilities of childbearing, then they must also take on the responsibility of caring for the child.”
Navejar and boyfriend Ramiro De La Rosa, who is still awaiting trial on a first-degree felony injury to a child charge, were arrested in September 2009 after an emergency responder at the West Side fire station found the infant in a car seat as he was retrieving the morning newspaper.
The child had bruising on her face, a burn mark on her nose, a discolored finger and appeared underweight, according to court documents.
In an interview with police, De La Rosa admitted he had slapped and choked the baby several days earlier when she wouldn't stop crying. The couple took her to the fire station several hours after realizing she had stopped breathing, he said.
Navejar told police she had been using heroin for about a year, since shortly after her first child was born, and that she never wanted the baby to begin with. She knew De La Rosa would hit the child, she said, adding that she also realized she didn't feed or care for the child like she should have.
But Navejar was a victim of abuse as well, defense attorney Raymond De Leon said after the hearing, describing his client as a “sweet girl” who has had a lot of time to reflect.
“She was under (De La Rosa's) thumb,” De Leon said. “He was shooting her up with heroin, beating her, had her walking the streets” to prostitute herself.
It's unfortunate, De Leon said, that neither her parents nor the school system stepped in to intervene.


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I hope this couple get the death penalty but they will probably get off with a few years. So sad.

What I don't understand is several of the articles say the baby died from "cocaine toxicity" and starvation. If she was 7 weeks old, wouldn't any cocaine in her system be gone if she was born with it in her system? Would this mean that the parents were injecting her with cocaine? I can't imagine that this piece of crap mother was nursing the baby so I presume it's not from mother's milk. Poor sweet little baby. I wonder what the condition of the one year old was? And why do drug addicts continue to get pregnant. With all the birth control available, why are girls still getting pregnant?