P. v. Zamora
Defendants Eduardo Zamora and Amber Ingram murdered Ingram’s five-year-old son, Braeden Gardner. Zamora beat the child to death. Ingram, with knowledge that Zamora was repeatedly and severely beating her son, did nothing to prevent the abuse and facilitated it by providing Zamora with unsupervised access to the child. Zamora and Ingram were charged with murder. (Pen. Code, § 187, subd. (a).)[1] With respect to Zamora, the murder charge included a special circumstance allegation that the murder was intentional and involved the infliction of torture. (Former § 190.2, subd. (a)(18).) Zamora was also charged with assault on a child involving force likely to produce great bodily injury and resulting in death (§ 273ab, subd. (a)) and the substantive crime of torture (§ 206). Ingram, in addition to murder, was charged with permitting a child to suffer unjustifiable physical pain or injury with an enhancement allegation that such conduct resulted in the child’s death. (§§ 273a, subd. (a), 12022.95.)
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