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    Second daughter of LA woman taken off life support

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 5-year-old girl whose mother is charged with her attempted drowning and the drowning of her 1-year-old sister has been taken off life support at a Los Angeles hospital, authorities said.

    The 5-year-old was removed from life support Monday at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, said Officer Karen Rayner, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department.

    "I was told the child had died, but I have not yet had that confirmed," Rayner told City News Service late Monday. "I'm waiting for a call back from a supervisor regarding her current condition."

    The girls' father, Jose Humberto Lopez, told KABC-TV that he hoped some good would come from the situation by the fact that he had decided to donate the 5-year-old's organs for transplant.

    The girls' mother, 32-year-old Lorna Valle, was charged with murder and attempted murder Friday and is being held on $1.5 million bail.

    She will face a second count of murder when the 5-year-old's death is confirmed, Rayner said.

    Lopez told police he found his wife trying to drown the girls in a tub when he returned home from a store Wednesday morning.

    Firefighters answering a 911 call found the girls unconscious and not breathing in a converted garage behind a main house. They were in a bathtub and had no pulses, fire department spokesman Erik Scott said.

    They were given cardiopulmonary resuscitation and taken to a hospital, he said.

    Doctors worked on both girls for two hours, but the 1-year-old died and the 5-year-old was transferred to Children's Hospital in critical but stable condition, said Katreena Salgado, spokeswoman for California Hospital Medical Center.

    Valle is being held on $1.5 million bail.

    If convicted, she faces 50 years to life in prison.

     
    • orions girl  •  2 mths ago
      In caes like this I always think that the person should have killed themselves first and done the world a big favor....hope she rots in jail here and in hell when she dies!!!!
    • Sue  •  Chicago, Illinois  •  2 mths ago
      i believe she should go to jail for the rest of her life, and once a week someone should hold her head in the toilet to the point of almost drowning. then let her up. just to let her know what her babies felt.
    • GiGi  •  Spring, Texas  •  2 mths ago
      Our world is slowly going to hell in a handbasket, as my father used to say. I just cannot comprehend a mother murdering her children like this. It's insane....poor babies. Poor Daddy....must be horrible thing for him. RIP little ones.
    • Harold  •  St Louis, Missouri  •  2 mths ago
      womens rights? good grief, apparently children are a curse apon women kind? another tragec story from the women and there rights of liberal garbage/, another pschobitch emerges?
    • Denise  •  Norwalk, Ohio  •  3 mths ago
      Whatever happened to leaving a note saying that she was done and just leaving the kids with the father and taking off?
      • nyny 3 mths ago
        right she is a coward the next thing she will go for insanity plea
      • Spawn32f 3 mths ago
        she didnt want to pay child support she rather visit their tombstone than having to pay for em been alive and she's a selfish mother oh heck she shouldnt be consider a mother anymore she's a dang child killer she be a treat for those ladies in prison they dont take kindly to ppl like her
      • Jennifer 3 mths ago
        I've heard that about inmates, how they don't like people who do things like this. I'd sincerely like to believe that they will take care of this POS.
        And it would have been the right and better thing to do to leave them with their father, but apparently she's too f****d up in the head to consider things like that.
    • realta gaelach  •  3 mths ago
      Those poor babies. I am very sorry that Mr. Lopez lost his daughters, but bless him for the organ donations. May he find some comfort in knowing there are other parents who will not have to say a premature goodbye to their children.
      • Jackie 3 mths ago
        Well said. Thanks, Realta.
      • Toni 3 mths ago
        I have to agree
    • Megz  •  Las Vegas, Nevada  •  3 mths ago
      There should be no life in prison,, if sentenced to life that should be the same as the death penalty,, why let someone live out their life with free room and board and get taken care of by the tax payers??? If they get the death penalty it shouldn't take years for the sentence to be carried out,, take them out back and get it over with ,, a rope is much cheaper can be used more than once,, and if you use a organic made rope all the "green energy" people will be happy for a change
      • A Yahoo! User 3 mths ago
        This is LAW of the person by the person and for the person .. If you give any rights to the victim then there will be less need for more lawyers.. Think of all the times they waste millions over one word in a indictment or something Equally as a ant farting in the wind .. Yes the accussed should have rights BUT the victim should have equal rights..
      • MOMOF3 3 mths ago
        Megz, I agree with you 100%. If someone takes a life why are their lives spared?? The should also die the way they killed that person, why let them get a injection that allows them to go peacefully? Did they allow their victim to go peacefully? Then they sit on death row for years and years while families of the victims live with the fact that they will never see their loved ones again. The family of the killer can visit and see them but all we are left with are memories. Murderers should not get life in prison especially those that murder in cold blood and not self defense. I have three little boys and yes they drive me bonkers but I could never imagine hurting them. I would not be able to live if they weren't here. I hate people that kill people especially innocent little babies. If you knew that a child wasn't something you couldnt handle, then use protection or keep your #$%$ legs closed
      • Looey 3 mths ago
        A yahoo user.. How do you give rights to the dead victims? Can't bring them back to become all they could have been!

        Momof3, If someone hit my car, driving t high speed, and my car was sriven out of control and killed your child, should I be found guilty of murder? Or one of my children kill to compensate?

        I do not think I should be punished for someone else's problem.

        And if I was driving drunk, and not able to control my venicle, does not the manufacturer and provider of the alcohol share the blame, for removing my ability to think clearly and quickly? We have great highway slaughter, but how much is due to driving drunk. from product that causes loss of control, physical and mental?

        That is promoted all over the country. Because it makes lots of money that goes to the government people.!
    • Dana  •  Shallotte, North Carolina  •  2 mths ago
      I say they drown her, slowly!!
    • BELLE  •  Blantyre, Malawi  •  2 mths ago
      Poor beautiful souls,may you rest in eternal peace!Give her the death penaty arleady!
    • Caius  •  3 mths ago
      Who are these people, torturing and killing their own children? There are too many of these reports.
      • Mozambique 3 mths ago
        the economy's bad it effects people mentaly they are either in financial trouble and get depressed, or if they're already mentaly ill they cant afford their medication or access to psychiatric care.
      • Barbara 3 mths ago
        Sorry, being poor or in bad circumstances is no excuse for murder.
      • kenneth 3 mths ago
        Meth heads.
    • Stella  •  3 mths ago
      Not everyone should be allowed to breed.
      • DeDe 3 mths ago
        Tell that to the opponents of birth control!!
      • Rebecca 3 mths ago
        I'm in my 60's and have always believed that people should have to take a psychic evaluation before they're allowed to have kids. I'm glad I always had a choice - and then we get morons like Santorum who joked about a woman using an aspirin as birth control (she can hold it between her knees).
        Idiots!
      • Chris 3 mths ago
        maybe a psychological evaluation rebecca?
    • American Sheeple  •  3 mths ago
      Please give her the death penalty.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Paragould, Arkansas  •  3 mths ago
      Why is she not facing the death penalty??????? Who will stand up for the rights of those who have no voice? God help this world. We are really in for it.
    • chicky  •  Port St Lucie, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      I am at a loss for words. I use to get so darn mad at my kids but taking their lives never entered my mind. What drove her so to do such a horrific thing?
    • NotEntitled  •  Richmond, Virginia  •  3 mths ago
      Why is this happening more and more? Why are the demented killing their children?
    • RedR  •  Newark, New Jersey  •  3 mths ago
      Drown her, and save the taxpayers money.
    • Fuzzy  •  Greenville, South Carolina  •  3 mths ago
      Why not put a 25 cent round through her head and call it a day. The time and money we waste on people that are 100% guilty is sickening.

      Child killers should be put down the moment we know they're guilty. She didn't give those girls a chance, so she shouldn't get one either.
    • Mike C  •  3 mths ago
      If convicted, she faces 50 years to life in prison??? #$%$ is wrong with this picture? drown the beotch
    • eierkopf  •  Tampa, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      geez, kill yourself NOT you kids!!!!!! #$%$ in every crowd!
    • Vincent  •  Washington, District of Columbia  •  3 mths ago
      No excuse for this behavior. Get divorced, give the kids to your ex and continue to follow your "dreams". Why 50 years for 2 murders? Strap the #$%$ down and put the needle to her.
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