Fontana Parents Arrested After 3-Year-Old Daughter Dies; Mother Was on Probation for Child Abuse

https://ktla.com/2019/03/04/fontana-parents-arrested-after-3-year-old-daughter-dies-mother-was-on-probation-for-child-abuse/

Posted 3:12 PM, March 4, 2019, by Erika Martin

A Fontana [California] mother who was already on probation for child abuse is now behind bars after allegedly killing her 3-year-old daughter, officials said Monday.

Miriam Sandoval Montano, 37, was arrested last Wednesday, Feb. 27, after officers responded to a medical aid call in the 9500 block of Madrona Drive around 12:50 p.m., Fontana police said in a news release.

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Montano is currently on felony probation for child abuse after being arrested in 2015 in an incident involving the same daughter, officials said.

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There were other children in the home, who have since been removed and placed into the care of the county’s Children and Family Services agency.

tags: child abuse