The Brief
- A mother was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading no contest to voluntary manslaughter in the 2009 drowning death of her newborn daughter in Union City.
- The baby’s body was found in a dumpster outside the Parkside Apartments, and the case remained unsolved for 16 years before advanced DNA testing identified the mother.
- Prosecutors said Angela Beth Onduto drowned the infant in a bathtub before abandoning the body.
UNION CITY, Calif. – A mother was sentenced to six years in prison after admitting she killed her newborn daughter and dumped the baby’s body in a trash bin outside a Union City apartment complex, according to prosecutors.
Angela Beth Onduto, 47, pleaded no contest in April to voluntary manslaughter in the 2009 death of the infant, who was originally identified as Baby Jane Doe. Police later gave the child the name Matea Esperanza.
Onduto was sentenced this week.…