According to police, mum Angela Onduto, 46, dumped her little baby girl behind a block of flats while she was still attached to her umbilical cord. She has been charged with murder.
Angela Onduto has been charged with the murder of her daughter
A woman has been charged with murder after DNA proved a baby found dumped in a bin was her daughter.
Angela Onduto, 46, was arrested by police on July 2 in connection with the death of a baby in California in 2009. The baby girl was found still attached to her umbilical cord and wrapped in tights behind a block of flats 16 years ago.
When officers arrived, the baby was discovered in a bin, and despite their best efforts, the baby was pronounced dead at the scene. The mum was never arrested, and a suspect was never found.
The police department honored the baby’s memory with a permanent grave in 2017 and named her Matea. However, last month, on what would have been the girl’s 16th birthday, police travelled to Denver and arrested Onduto. On July 2, she was re-arrested after DNA proved the child was hers.
According to local media, the suspect allegedly confessed to drowning the newborn inside her flat shortly after giving birth and dumped her body in a bin outside. She expressed no remorse and denied having any mental health or substance issues at the time of the incident.
Union City Cold Case Detective Dominic Ayala reportedly wrote in the statement, “Angela detailed how she intentionally murdered [Matea] after giving birth at home in 2009.
Angela expressed no remorse, and said she knew while pregnant she had no intention of keeping the baby. “She admitted to discarding Baby Jane Doe in the dumpster. She denied diagnosis with any psychiatric conditions and/or drug use at the time of the incident.”
Police confirmed an investigation into Matea’s death is still ongoing. Onduto remains in custody in Colorado pending extradition.
It comes after vegan parents with extreme health views have been found guilty of leaving their newborn son “unable to walk, talk, or see” after exposing him to extreme heat and ice baths.
The alarm was raised after John Gonzalez, 38, and 45-year-old Jaqueline Navarro brought their poorly ten-month-old son to hospital suffering from seizures and brain damage.
“The baby was grey in colour, emaciated, and catatonic,” according to a statement from prosecutors. “Emergency room doctors discovered the boy had extremely low blood sugar levels and suffered from hypoxia and constant seizures.”
The couple, who considered themselves “vegan mucus-free fruitarians”, employed extreme practices and exposed him to “high temperature saunas and ice baths.” Prosecutors said the parents “refused to feed the baby formula or breast milk because they believed it was toxic.”
According to the district attorney’s office in Orange County, “Gonzalez objected to many lifesaving treatments and told medical staff he believed that starvation would lead to healing.”