CAMARILLO, Calif. (KTLA) — A woman suspected of murdering her newborn baby, which was found dead in a Camarillo strawberry field earlier this year, pleaded not guilty to murder Monday.
20-year-old Rosalba Moran of Oxnard was arrested Dec. 21 after a lengthy investigation in which detectives used DNA samples from farm workers to track down a relative of the baby’s mother.
The investigation began May 21, 2012 when the newborn’s body was discovered at La Esparanza Farms.
Detectives collected more than 100 DNA samples from field workers and interviewed potential witnesses, officials said.
Using the DNA, forensic scientists identified one of those sampled as a close relative of the baby’s mother.
That led investigators to Moran, whose DNA was collected under a search warrant while she was in jail on the documents charges, authorities said.
Moran is due back in court May 8th.
15 Comments to “Mother Pleads Not Guilty to Murder of Baby Found in Field”
December 27, 2012 at 1:27 PM
Dat is just not right. It all about how u raised.
December 27, 2012 at 1:45 PM
Apparently she was raised by something worse than animals.
December 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM
Maybe she was a scared immigrant who got pregnant from a rape and didn't have access to health care..
December 27, 2012 at 7:11 PM
and that makes it okay for her to kill her child? Nice logic idiot.
December 27, 2012 at 2:33 PM
No excuses! You can turn a baby into any church, fire station, or hospital NO QUESTIONS ASKED
December 27, 2012 at 3:07 PM
I agree with Dana, there are no excuses. Maybe there needs to be more of an awareness in the immigrant community that you do not have to abandon your baby, that you can leave it at the fire station.
December 27, 2012 at 3:37 PM
She looks so innocent too.. How very sad. She was capable of murdering a human being
March 18, 2013 at 9:37 PM
I think she looks evil
December 27, 2012 at 4:53 PM
We need more information about the safe haven policies. A baby can be relinquished to a hospital, fire station, or many other places, without having to give your name, and with no further responsibilities. Unfortunately, I don't see huge bill boards illustrating this option along the street, or a sufficient number of flyers in the grocery stores. Also, the state of mind of a young woman who just delivered, probably by herself, a child she cannot care for, should not be judged. The infant may have been too weak to cry, and she may have thought he was dead, so she left it there, scared and in pain and alone. The issue is, why was she so alone that she and her baby had to suffer? They were both abandoned.
December 27, 2012 at 10:03 PM
I love this response. Who KNOWS what went on with this young woman. I don't condone leaving a baby to die but we can't judge people as we don't know what has gone on in their lives…….
AND WHO CARES IF SHE LOOKS MEXICAN!!!!! People of ALL races do this stuff!!!!
December 27, 2012 at 8:57 PM
I wonder if it was Arnie baby
December 28, 2012 at 6:22 AM
This is an ignorant response… I see this in the news with girls of all races. Also, were you raised in a Catholic Mexican Household Harry? By the sound of your name, I believe your white or something not of the mexican decent, correct me if I'm wrong. If you dont know the facts, dont state what you dont know. They teach this stuff in school, so these girls know. Also you dont know if that young lady was raped, you dont know her situation. I'm not condoning what she did, but dont judge all mexican girls because of one on the news.
March 18, 2013 at 6:20 PM
A culture of abandonment. And the baby's father was where?
March 18, 2013 at 10:20 PM
too bad