King City woman sentenced for shaking baby

A King City woman has been sentenced to six years in prison for child abuse.

The Monterey County District Attorney said 34-year-old Rosa Ramirez admitted to shaking the baby while she was babysitting in September of 2017 causing severe injuries.

Ramirez’s charge is considered a “strike” under California’s Three Strikes Law.

On September 5, 2017, officers and medical staff were called out to Ramirez’s house for a report of a four-month-old baby unconscious and not breathing. When they got there, Ramirez told officers she was babysitting while the baby’s parents were at work. Ramirez then said the baby began to shake and foam at the mouth and she didn’t know what happened.

The baby was later taken to a children’s hospital at Standford Medical Center where doctors discovered the baby had intracranial bleeding and abusive head trauma consistent with being shaken.

Ramirez then admitted the baby wouldn’t stop crying so she put her in her cradle and shook the cradle up and down for 30 minutes. However, Ramirez later changed her statement saying she shook the baby for 20 seconds.

Ramirez said she was telling the baby to shut up as she was shaking her and that the baby began to have seizures, foam at the mouth and become unresponsive.

The baby survived thanks to the extensive medical treatment she received.

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