"Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Watsonville woman received her sentencing after being convicted in a 30 year old cold case. On Wednesday, Pamela Ferreyra, 61, was sentenced to 13 years and four months for one count of voluntary manslaughter and one count of felony child abuse for the December 1994 death of her infant son, according to a press release by the District Attorney's Office."
"Back in 1994, on Dec. 3 the partial remains of a two to three day old boy were found off Garin Road in Prunedale. An autopsy showed the baby had been born alive, outside of a hospital, and that he had not been fed for about 24 hours prior to his death. The cause of death could not be determined. There was never a missing person's report filed, and the Monterey County Sheriff's Office were unable to get any leads."
On Dec. 3, 1994 partial remains of a two- to three-day-old boy were found off Garin Road in Prunedale. An autopsy showed the baby had been born alive outside a hospital and had not been fed for about 24 hours before death; the cause could not be determined. No missing-person report was filed and the case produced no leads. In 2020 the county formed a Cold Case Task Force to reinvestigate unsolved cases. DNA testing identified Pamela Ferreyra as the child's mother. Ferreyra said she hid her pregnancy, left the newborn in a remote Prunedale location and never returned. Ferreyra, 61, was sentenced to 13 years and four months for voluntary manslaughter and felony child abuse.
Read at www.montereyherald.com
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