Pomona Woman Pleads to Murder of Young Son

Pomona Woman Pleads
to Murder of Young Son

March 17, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts: Joe Scott, Director of Communications
Sandi Gibbons, Public Information Officer
Jane Robison, News Secretary
Shiara Dávila-Morales, Assistant PIO
(213) 974-3525

POMONA – A 23-year-old Pomona woman accused of drowning her 5-year-old son in a bathtub pleaded today, the District Attorney’s Office announced.

Deputy District Attorney Lindley Heher of the Pomona Branch Office said Josie Stephanie Navarro pleaded no contest to second-degree murder and was immediately sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison. Under the terms of a negotiated plea agreement, Pomona Superior Court Judge Jack Hunt dismissed a count of assault on a child causing death.

On Oct. 20, 2008, Navarro drowned her young son in a motel bathtub before taking over-the-counter sleeping pills. Responding officers of the Pomona Police Department were unable to revive the boy.

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