GRAND RAPIDS, Mich (WOOD) — The mother of a 5-year-old boy murdered by her boyfriend is now behind bars after she was charged with failing to protect her child and lying to police.
On Saturday, Sonja Hernandez spoke to 24 Hour News 8 via Internet from the Kent County Jail.
It started on June 13 when police found Giovanni Mejias dying at the Cutlerville mobile home he shared with his mother, his four siblings and his mother’s boyfriend, Elis Nelson Ortiz-Nieves.
He would be arrested charged and found guilty of the boy’s murder. Ortiz-Nieves maintained that he was trying to save the boy even as he was being sentenced last month.
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