21-year-old woman gets 3 years for putting newborn in plastic bag, leaving him to die in NW Side gangway in 2014

By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Ana Rosa Mora | Cook County Sheriff's Dept.

Ana Rosa Mora | Cook County Sheriff’s Dept.


A woman who put hernewborn son into a plastic bag, and left the infant to died in a gangway on the Northwest Side in 2014 will spend less than three years in prison.

Ana Rosa Mora, 21, pleaded guilty Nov. 29 to one count of involuntary manslaughter, according to Cook County court records.

Mora’s newborn son was found in a gangway about 8:30 a.m. April 19, 2014, in the 2700 block of North Hamlin Avenue, authorities said at the time. The infant was pronounced dead at the scene.

Mora, who lived on the same block, was arrested after she admitted to putting the live infant inside a plastic bag and leaving him in the gangway, authorities said.

Judge James Obbish sentenced her to three years in prison on Nov. 29, according to court records. She will receive credit for 95 days served in the Cook County Jail, and must serve one year of supervised release.

Mora was booked into the Logan Correctional Center on Wednesday to begin serving her sentence, according to IDOC records.

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