SAN JOSE, California (AP) – The mother of a 3 -month -old baby abducted from the San Francisco Bay Area said the woman involved in the case met the family at church and spent a lot of time with them. Because she was nine months pregnant.
Carolina Ayala said on Spanish -language television on Wednesday that after giving birth, Essenia Ramirez was always at home.
“He walked a lot to my house, he always wanted to be there,” Ayala said in an interview with Spanish KTST-TV, a subsidiary of Telemundo.
Ramirez, 43, was arrested for kidnapping Brandon Cuéllar along with Baldomo Sandoval and Jose Portillo, who police said Monday entered the family’s second -floor apartment in San Jose and took the baby while the grandmother was unpacking purchased.
Sandoval, who Ayala said was Ramires’ wife, was released Thursday without charge, San Jose police officials said.
“Details of Sandoval’s involvement in this case have been released and he will not be charged so far,” the statement read.
Ramirez and Portillo were tried Thursday on charges of kidnapping, aggravated theft and conspiracy and jailed without bail.
Attorneys from the Santa Clara County Public Defender’s Office, representing Ramirez and Portillo, did not immediately respond to a phone message from the Associated Press.
Police said the 28-year-old Portillo was captured under video surveillance holding a car seat and a small blanket as he walked toward the apartment. According to them, the cause of the kidnapping is still being investigated.
On Monday, Ramirez offered to buy supplies for the baby and brought the baby and his grandmother, Victoria Mejia, to the store and home, Mejia told the Telemundo branch. Police said Ramirez contacted Portillo just minutes before he picked up the baby and carried it.
Ayala said he was at work and cleaning the house when his girlfriend called and found her son missing.
“I felt like half of my heart was left to him. “I feel like I’m going to die,” Ayala told KDTV-TV, a subsidiary of Univision.
Police found the uninjured child Tuesday at the home where Portillo lived.
Ayala returned to her son a few hours later, a moment she described as “my soul returned to my body”.
“I cried with joy, I cried until I got tired of crying,” he told Telemundo 48.
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