P. v. Osuna and Ponce
Paramedics responding to an emergency call on March 10, 2003 found three-year-old Yessenia Garcia breathing, but unconscious and unresponsive to stimuli, on the floor of the apartment where she lived with her mother Melissa Sue Osuna and her mother's boyfriend Ray Timothy Ponce. Yessenia was taken to a hospital and placed on life support. She was covered in bruises and abrasions and had suffered severe impact injuries, all caused by lethal force, to her forehead and to the back and left side of her head. The hospital's director of forensic pediatrics found it remarkable that Yessenia had so many injuries, observing â€
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