Takoma, D.C., woman pleads guilty to role in infant's death
nWorkers found baby in field in Langley Park
The mother charged in the Oct. 12 death of her hours-old infant pleaded guilty Monday to child abuse resulting in death after leaving her daughter in a plastic bag in a Langley Park field.
Wendy Villatoro, 25, of the 6200 block of Eastern Avenue, N.E. in the Takoma neighborhood of Washington, D.C., had originally confessed to giving birth and then leaving the infant in a field in the 6300 block of New Hampshire Avenue in Prince George's County, just over the Washington, D.C., line, according to Prince George's County police.
Ramon V. Korionoff, a spokesman for Prince George's County State's Attorney Glenn F. Ivey (D), said prosecutors will seek the maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.
Assistant Public Defender Michael Beach declined to comment on the case until after Villatoro's sentencing, which is scheduled for July 29.
According to police, workers hired by a nearby business to clean the field found the infant. She died after being taken to a local hospital.
In November, Prince George's County detectives held a funeral for the infant girl, who they named Maria Del Pilar, after no family claimed the body.
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