BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The couple accused of the torture slaying of 8-year-old Genesis Mata were not in court for a scheduled hearing Tuesday, and neither were defense attorneys representing one of them.
The hearing couldn’t go forward without them so Judge John R. Brownlee rescheduled it for next week.
It was unclear why Ray Mata Jr. and Graciela Bustamonte, Genesis’ father and stepmother, weren’t transported from Lerdo Jail…