'Anger towards the 7-month-old': Woman who killed infant daughter because she was mad at the father learns her fate

A Texas pistillate volition walk the remainder of her beingness down bars for brutally killing her babe daughter successful a fatal tantrum of misplaced rage.

In October, Olivia Munoz, 22, pleaded blameworthy to 1 number each of murder of a idiosyncratic nether 10 years of property and wounded to a kid with intent to origin important bodily wounded successful the decease of 7-month-old Hazel Munoz, according to the San Patricio County District Clerk's Office and the San Patricio County District Attorney's Office.

The suspect was subsequently sentenced to 2 beingness presumption successful situation by a justice successful San Patricio County. That condemnation was decided successful beforehand nether the presumption of her plea deal, according to tribunal records reviewed by Law&Crime. This week, Munoz was delivered into the custody of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

The underlying incidental occurred connected Dec. 19, 2023.

Around 6:30 a.m., instrumentality enforcement was called to Munoz's location connected South Marigold Street successful Mathis – a tiny municipality located astir 35 miles northwest of Corpus Christi. Responding officers recovered Hazel unresponsive and not breathing.

In abbreviated order, EMS unit arrived and did their champion to revive the small miss with CPR earlier rushing her to ER 24/7 Northwest successful the Calallen vicinity of Corpus Christi – a infirmary located immoderate 22 miles southeast. But it was excessively precocious and yet for naught; Hazel was pronounced dormant soon aft arriving, according to constabulary section sources cited by Corpus Christi-based NBC affiliate KRIS.

Mathis Police Chief Guillermo "Willie" Figueroa told the TV presumption that idiosyncratic successful the location called 911 aft Munoz woke up to find her girl unresponsive. The constabulary main went connected to explicate that Munoz told her parent that Hazel was not breathing, prompting the babe girl's grandma to person different household subordinate dial 911.

Fast-forward to conscionable aft the child's decease – that's erstwhile infirmary officials reached retired to constabulary to picture the child's big of injuries.

Officers past questioned the defendant, who readily admitted to injuring her miss during 3 abstracted incidents, and ne'er seeking aesculapian attraction for Hazel aft the fact.

"At the time, Munoz was large and the parent of different daughter, a twelvemonth and 5 months old," the constabulary main told KRIS. "The older kid did not person injuries."

On Dec. 20, Munoz was initially arrested connected 2 counts of wounded to a child. Figueroa said 2 of the 3 admitted injuries were charged.

Then, the child's autopsy was performed, outlining the grade of the prolonged maltreatment Hazel suffered during her abbreviated life.

The kid had respective fractures successful her arms, ribs, and skull.

In January 2024, the autopsy results were turned implicit to instrumentality enforcement. Hazel's decease was determined to beryllium a homicide. Local constabulary past upgraded Munoz's charges to see murder.

The defendant, by then, was allegedly voluble astir wherefore she did what she did to the helpless small girl, according to the constabulary chief.

"She admitted she had a batch of choler towards the 7-month-old babe owed to problems she had with the baby's father," Figueroa said. "She told officers that her 3 children shared the aforesaid biologic father."

Then, the Texas Rangers – a specialized part of seasoned instrumentality enforcement officers based retired of Austin – stepped in.

Munoz was formally indicted connected 3 charges successful March 2024, according to tribunal records obtained by Law&Crime. She was charged with 2 counts of superior execution and 1 number of wounded to a kid successful the archetypal grade successful the Lone Star State's 343rd District Court.

The ineligible process churned slowly. A psychiatric valuation was called for, on with a question for an insanity defense, records show. A sealed transcript of those results was filed successful precocious September.

In mid-October, the parties announced a plea decision.

On Oct. 24, successful speech for the authorities dropping 1 execution complaint and taking the superior execution complaint down to a lesser-included execution offense, Munoz pleaded blameworthy to the remaining charges.