She got 25 years to life for tossing son four floors. Court says probation should be considered

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Sonia Hermosillo threw her infant from the top of a parking structure. An appeals court said mental illness was not properly considered at sentencing.

An Orange County woman wrapped her 7-month-old son in a white blanket, removed the helmet that was used to treat a medical condition, and placed him at the edge of the wall atop a fourth-floor parking structure adjacent to a children's hospital. Then she pushed. The child — named Noe Medina Jr., after the father who feared his wife was mentally unstable and dangerous — fell to his death, a victim of severe blunt cranial trauma.

Medina began to take his wife to mental health professionals but was unable to continue treatment because of the costs, court documents noted. At one point, Hermosillo was hospitalized on an involuntary hold for “being gravely disabled and a danger to herself,” according to court documents. Medina was financially unable to continue paying expenses and signed her out “against medical advice,” according to court documents. On Aug.

 

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