"RIVERSIDE A Jurupa Valley woman partly responsible for her 1-year-old son's ingestion of a deadly dose of fentanyl was bound for state prison Wednesday to serve a sentence of 12 years, four months behind bars after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter and another felony. Sandy Alyssa Acuna, 25, admitted the manslaughter count, along with child cruelty, under a plea agreement Tuesday with the Riverside County District Attorney's Office."
"Acuna's co-defendant and former live-in boyfriend, 26-year-old Adler Alan Metcalf of Jurupa Valley, is charged with second-degree murder and three counts of child cruelty. Metcalf's case was pending trial Wednesday at the downtown courthouse, though no courtroom had been assigned yet for pretrial motions. He's being held in lieu of $500,000 bail at the Robert Presley Jail. The defendants were the parents of Adler Acuna Jr., who died in 2020."
Sandy Alyssa Acuna, 25, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and child cruelty and was sentenced to 12 years, four months in state prison under a plea agreement. Prosecutors dropped second-degree murder and other charges in exchange for her admissions, and Superior Court Judge Joshlyn Pulliam certified and imposed the stipulated sentence. Co-defendant and former live-in boyfriend Adler Alan Metcalf, 26, is charged with second-degree murder and three counts of child cruelty and remains jailed on $500,000 bail pending trial. On Sept. 1, 2020, Acuna found her 1-year-old son unconscious in their Jurupa Valley mobile home; paramedics pronounced him dead at a Riverside hospital, and investigators determined she had no prescription for the OxyContin pills she claimed he accessed.
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