OAKLAND — A lady has been sentenced to life in a psychological hospital after an Alameda County decide affirmed she was insane on the “precise moment” she stabbed her 10-year-old daughter to loss of life of their condominium, court docket information present.
Rosa Orozco-Suarez, 35, was discovered not responsible by purpose of madness, and Choose Kimberly Colwell sentenced her to a most life time period for second-degree homicide, information present. The sentencing occurred in early 2025 however hasn’t been beforehand reported.
Police say that on Might 22, 2023, Orozco-Surarez posted a video of her daughter, Sophia Lorenzo Orozco, with the caption, “This is how we say good bye on Facebook,” and “see you on the other side,” authorities say. Then she signed off social media and allegedly stabbed the younger woman to loss of life earlier than turning the knife on herself. She was hospitalized with self-inflicted knife wounds after she was arrested.
Orozco-Suarez has been transferred to the state hospital system, information present.
After her arrest, neighbors stated that Orozco-Suarez appeared more and more paranoid and unstable within the weeks main as much as the murder. A few of her members of the family have blamed her stress on alleged home violence by Sophia’s father, who was not current for the murder.
When an individual is discovered not responsible of homicide by purpose of madness, it’s a authorized discovering that they killed the sufferer however both didn’t perceive the character of their act or didn’t perceive it was flawed. Below state legislation, such a discovering ends in the killer being despatched to a psychiatric hospital for so long as their jail sentence would have been, with one caveat: The sentence may be reduce brief if medical doctors discover that the topic’s sanity has been “restored.”
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