On Friday, May 15, 2009 a woman had taken her son to play at the neighborhood park. They saw a shoe in the ground and soon found out it was attached to a body. After contacting police, the body was dug up from under the playground set. It was the body of a 3 year old boy who remained unidentified for almost a full week. His body had been exposed to extreme heat and was not able to be shown on television. After a sketch had been released, calls began to come in regarding the boy.
On Wednesday, May 20, 2009 Tiffany Toribio, 23, was arrested after family members had contacted officials because she had been missing with her son. They searched many homes she had been staying in and found that just days before the boy had been killed she was staying in a home not far from his park. They finally found her and she admitted to killing her son.
Toribio stated that she did not want her son to grow up without anyone loving him like she did. She suffocated him, then had second thoughts about it, performed CPR and revived him. After he was breathing again, she realized that she did want to go through with her original plan and suffocated him once again. She then buried him under the play set at the park.
Toribio is now being held at the Bernalillo County Detention Center and is facing charges including first-degree murder and abuse of a child under 12 that caused death. She has tried to commit suicide since being arrested and is being watched closely.
Being a mother, I could not imagine suffocating my child, much less doing it TWICE! This sickens me and makes me very upset. This poor innocent child was killed by his own mother. Imagine if you took your child to the park to play and a body was discovered under the sand you were just playing and digging in. This would affect you for a long time. I am glad they have finally found who was responsible, but sad that it happened in the first place.
