A Fairfax County woman was sentenced to 35 years in prison for tossing her 2-year-old granddaughter off a mall walkway.
Carmela Dela Rosa threw Angelyn Ogdoc to her death from a sixth-floor pedestrian bridge at the Tysons Corner Center in November 2010.
Dela Rosa, who presented an insanity defense, was convicted of first-degree murder in a jury trial last year. The jury recommended a 35-year sentence, and Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Bruce White imposed that penalty Friday.
White could have reduced her sentence, but not increased it. He called Dela Rosa’s actions “almost beyond comprehension,” according to the Associated Press.
In a taped police interrogation played in court at trial, Dela Rosa told detectives a few hours after the incident that she had done a “terrible thing” when she threw the child. Dela Rosa told the officers she threw the child out of anger at James Ogdoc, her daughter’s husband and Angelyn’s father.
