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A California mother has been charged with murder 30 years after her newborn baby boy was found dead in a paper bag in a garbage dump, authorities said.
Pamela Ferreira, 60, was arrested Thursday after DNA tests showed she was the mother of an infant found by a person collecting cans in Monterey County in 1994, officials said at a news conference. spoke.
Monterey County Sheriff Tina M. Nieto said the deceased newborn was only known as “Baby Garin” after the name of the road where she was found and the fact that “garin means protection.”
“Every child has a right to protection, and people advocate and seek justice for them,” she said of the 30-year cold case that finally led to an arrest.
Officials said tests have not yet determined the baby's exact age when it was abandoned and whether it was alive or already dead.
Monterey County Sheriff Andres Rosas said the collector who found the can “opened up that paper bag and found something no one wanted to find.”
“If you ask any law enforcement expert, they will tell you that the most difficult cases to investigate are those involving crimes against children,” Rosas said.
“These are emotional events that are not easily forgotten, even if they are forgotten.”
Ms. Ferreira is a home health care provider and mother of several children (local station) KSBW-TV She did not say exactly how many children she had, but reported.
Ferreira was arrested without resistance at his home on Thursday and charged with one count of murder.
She is being held on $1 million bail and is scheduled to be arraigned Friday afternoon.
