{"id":341947,"date":"2010-02-19T19:06:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T00:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8b894c8970b"},"modified":"2010-02-19T19:12:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T00:12:17","slug":"parents-who-starved-2-year-old-to-death-get-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/341947","title":{"rendered":"Parents who starved 2-year-old to death get prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

The parents of a 2-year-old girl who starved to death in 2008 were convicted this week of child abuse and sentenced to prison.<\/p>\n

\nIsabel Garcia<\/a> died two months after Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services officials deemed that she, her five siblings and their parents, Gabriel Garcia and Lupe Lopez, were all doing well during a visit to their Pomona home. <\/p>\n

For two years, the family had been supervised by the department\u2019s social workers, who investigated at least 12 allegations of abuse and neglect from 2004 to March 2008, according to files obtained by The Times through public records requests and a court order.\n<\/p>\n

Only one allegation was substantiated.
\nLopez was initially charged with murder, but in a plea deal she pleaded no contest to three counts of child abuse, including one count alleging that the abuse caused her daughter\u2019s death on May 19, 2008. She was sentenced to 12 years and eight months in prison.<\/p>\n

\nGarcia, who was imprisoned in the weeks before his daughter\u2019s death, pleaded no contest to one count of child abuse. He was sentenced to six years in prison.<\/p>\n

\n–Garrett Therolf\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\"With<\/img><\/a>INVESTIGATING CHILD DEATHS:<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong>Check out The Times’ special report on how L.A. County government handles child deaths, Innocents Betrayed.<\/p>\n

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The parents of a 2-year-old girl who starved to death in 2008 were convicted this week of child abuse and sentenced to prison. Isabel Garcia died two months after Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services officials deemed that she, her five siblings and their parents, Gabriel Garcia and Lupe Lopez, were all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}