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North Naples mom gets 10 years for beating toddler
Veronica Viveros Alarcon was sentenced to prison and lost her parental rights, but she also faces a deportation hearing once she’s released
Veronica Viveros-Alarcon
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A North Naples mother who admitted losing her temper and repeatedly beating her 3-year-old daughter has been sentenced to 10 years in a state prison and lost her parental rights to the child.
Collier Circuit Judge Elizabeth Krier imposed the sentence recently after Veronica Viveros Alarcon, of North Naples, pleaded no contest to aggravated child abuse.
The judge gave her credit for time served in the county jail since her arrest, 555 days.
Viveros also faces deportation after she’s released from prison.
Her sentence came just weeks after her boyfriend, Rafael Garcia, 24, pleaded to child abuse, a third-degree felony, and was sentenced to two years of probation and time served, 543 days in the county jail. Garcia maintained his innocence and blamed Viveros for the injuries. He also faces a deportation hearing.
Viveros faced up to 30 years in a state prison for the first-degree felony, but was sentenced as part of a plea agreement negotiated by Assistant State Attorney Christopher Klink and Assistant Public Defender Shawn Nagle.
Klink said he ensured that a condition of probation was that her parental rights to the child were terminated. A guardian ad litem, who represents the girl’s rights, was in court at sentencing.
Viveros was arrested Feb. 23, 2007, when a deputy responded to the Children’s Advocacy Center of Collier County, where officials were investigating injuries to her daughter. Garcia was arrested a day later.
Their address was withheld from reports to protect the toddler’s identity.
A Collier County sheriff’s report says the girl had severe bruising to the right side of her face, swelling on the side of her head, large bruises on her arms and back, and dried blood around her genitals. She appeared to be emotionally traumatized, was verbally unresponsive — and still remains traumatized.
Viveros told investigators the girl often hits herself and runs into things on purpose, but Viveros did confess that she gets mad at the toddler, “loses it,” and hits her.
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Please get this scum out of the country.
#1 Posted by gladesgirl on September 6, 2008 at 10:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Send them out of the country all of you dirtbags who hire these illegals read this article.
#2 Posted by zzcoupe on September 7, 2008 at 3:16 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Wish every state took such measures with such animals.
#3 Posted by Robert_L on September 7, 2008 at 5:51 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I hope she gets her A_ _ beat in prison. She doesnt deserve a child, sick wench. Why waste our money on her send her back to whatever country she is from. These illegals shouldnt be here in the first place.
#4 Posted by Italia on September 7, 2008 at 1:17 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Just another wonderful new resident from south of the boarder looking to make our community a better place. Perhaps if our Govt. would grow a set would could tak out the trash.
#5 Posted by TSOL on September 7, 2008 at 2:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I hope that the child does not remember any of this and that she is given to a home full of love and intelligence. I hope the system does not give her back to her birth mother at any time in the future irregardless of any circumstances. I hope this child gets the necessary treatment she requires mentally and physically and does not "fall through the cracks".
#6 Posted by anchor on September 7, 2008 at 4:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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