"Jane" CADILLO-CASTRO - 5 yo (2010) - South Salt Lake City UT

A South Salt Lake couple were arrested
Tuesday on suspicion of felony child abuse after their 5-year-old
daughter was found dead in their home.

Medical personnel responded to an apartment
at 726 W. Timbercreek Way (3875 South) after a call shortly after 1 p.m.
reporting that the girl’s heart had stopped, according to South Salt Lake Police Chief Chris Snyder.

The girl was pronounced dead by the emergency
responders. But they noticed she had suffered trauma, police reported.
Snyder would not detail what kind of trauma the girl had suffered. After
further investigation, police said they arrested the girl’s parents:
Angeles Cadillo-Castro, 31, and Gerardo Jesus Espindola-Olvera, 36. They
were booked into the Salt Lake County jail at 10 p.m. Tuesday and are being held there.



The couple also have a 2-month-old child who is now in state custody, Snyder said.

The couple could face further charges once
the autopsy is complete, Snyder said. He was not aware of any previous
police involvement with the couple. A court case search returned no
results.

Neighbors at the couple’s apartment complex did not know the family well,
and say they moved in earlier this summer.

Jonathan De Leon, the family’s 9-year-old
next-door neighbor, said his younger brother played with the little girl
a few times when they first moved in, but soon stopped.

The family was quiet and didn’t speak with neighbors.

“It’s sad it happened,” said Mary
Fogel, who lives above the family. “But they really just kept to
themselves. I never saw the kids or the wife, just the gentleman who lived there.”

A South Salt Lake woman on Friday admitted to fatally beating her 5-year-old daughter last year.

Angeles Cadillo-Castro, 32, was initially
charged with first-degree felony murder for the July 27 death of the
victim, identified in court documents only as “S.G.E.”

Murder is punishable by a prison term of 15
years to life. But Cadillo-Castro pleaded guilty in 3rd District Court
to a lesser charge of child-abuse homicide, which is punishable by five
years to life.

Sentencing is set for May 13 before Judge Judith Atherton.

A spatula likely was used to beat the girl,
according to a search warrant. She had bruising across her body
“consistent with a severe and prolonged assault,” police said.



http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/51461977-76/beating-lake-salt-admits.html.csp

Prison ordered for woman who brutally killed daughter with kitchen utensils
Mom got angry when 5-year-old fell asleep while tending infant

Published: Friday, May 13, 2011 12:56 p.m. MDT

SALT LAKE CITY — A woman was ordered to prison Friday
for killing her 5-year-old daughter in a beating so brutal, veteran
prosecutors said it was the most severe they had ever seen.
Stephanie Guadalupe Espindola-Cadillo died July 27,
2010, after being beaten with a spatula and "various types of kitchen
implements" for as long as an hour, prosecutor Rob Parrish said. She had
wounds from her neck to her knees and other defense wounds on the backs
of her hands, where she tried to defend herself.

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, Salt Lake County Jail

Angeles Cadillo-Castro, 32, was sentenced to prison Friday for
the brutal beating of her 5-year-old daughter. She apparently became
angry at the child because the girl fell asleep after being left alone
to baby-sit her infant sibling.
"The official cause of death was exsanguination,"
Parrish said, before clarifying: "She bled to death, which is a long,
torturous process."
Parrish has worked for 25 years as a prosecutor on
child abuse homicide cases but said this case was "the worst, most
severe beating I've seen of a child." While most child murders take
place within minutes, Parrish said this beating would have lasted
anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour.
"So for her rage to be going on for that amount of time, she definitely deserves to be in prison," he said.
The girl's mother, Angeles Cadillo-Castro, 32, was
ordered Friday to spend five years to life in prison for her daughter's
brutal death.
The woman pleaded guilty to one count of child abuse
homicide, a first-degree felony, in March. She was initially charged
with murder, a first-degree felony, which would have carried a potential
sentence of 15 years to life. Parrish said they agreed to the amended
charge because Cadillo-Castro began to show a willingness to take
responsibility.
He said Cadillo-Castro initially said a woman she
didn't know showed up at her South Salt Lake home, 726 W. Timbercreek
Way (3875 South), and she left her children with the woman only to
return and find the girl dead.
Eventually, she gave another account, saying she
snapped after leaving the 5-year-old to baby-sit her infant sibling and
returned to find the young girl sleeping.
"She got angry because (the girl) wasn't doing her
job as a baby-sitter," Parrish said. "I hope that's not what it was.
There's probably something more to it."
After the beating, Cadillo-Castro called the girl's father to tell him the girl was unresponsive.
"The father was working three jobs at the time," Parrish said. "He was completely surprised when he came home."
Cadillo-Castro cried throughout her sentencing hearing.
"I'm so sorry," she said through a Spanish language interpreter. "I know I can't change what I've done."
"She's obviously very remorseful. ... She just broke when this happened," defense attorney John West said.
West said his client did not have any criminal history and struggled through a turbulent childhood.
"It's an extremely unfortunate situation," he said.
"She was abused as a child. She lived in extreme poverty. She was
mentally not capable of raising children."
It is unclear who currently has custody of the
couple's other child, although Parrish believes it was the father's
family. Though he is working to gain custody, it is unclear whether he
will be successful as both he and Cadillo-Castro are in the country
illegally.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705372582/Prison-ordered-for-woman-who-brutally-killed-daughter-with-kitchen-utensils.html