Retrial begins for foster mother accused in 3-month-old infant’s death in 2020

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – Day one of Mary Sifuentes’ retrial began at the Lubbock County Courthouse on Tuesday. This comes after a mistrial in 2024 where she was previously accused of aggravated assault of a household member in connection with the 2020 death of a 3-month-old baby boy.

Day one saw testimony from a Lubbock Police Department dispatch supervisor, and the LPD officer who arrived on scene that day of Dec. 16, 2020, Sifuentes’ daughter-in-law, Trina, two on-scene paramedics and a radiologist.

According to the defense, Sifuentes was fostering the infant and his brother at the time…

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