Calling the crime one of the most “stupid, crazy and asinine” he’s seen, a judge on Friday sentenced Gladys Remigio, a Santa Ana woman, to 16 years in prison for attempting to kidnap her roommate’s 2-week-old baby, according to the O.C. Register.
Remigio was 17 years old when she askeed two gangbangers to help her to kidnap her roommate’s newly born baby daughter back in November of 2011. Remigio and the two men, who were armed with a fake gun, did exactly that when they entered the home and ordered the baby’s mother into a bedroom, according to the OCDA.
The two gangbangers, Steven David Quirino and Robert Henry Rodriguez, then took off while Remigio tried to take off with the baby. However the baby’s desperate mother left the bedroom and was able to retrieve her baby daughter.
But there was more to this fiasco. Remigio reportedly tried to take the baby because she wanted to pass it off as her own in order to keep her fiance as she had lied to him and told him that she was eight months pregnant and was working in New York City.
Remitio had planned on making the baby-snatching incident look like a robbery and kidnapping but her plan was dashed when her gangbanger buddies stole items in the house and left her and the baby behind.
Remigio, who is now 22 years-old, pleaded guilty in February to several charges including attempted kidnapping, criminal conspiracy, burglary and robbery, with enhancements for gang activity.
The gangbangers, Quirino and Rodriguez, both pleaded guilty as well. Quirino was sentenced in 2014 to six years in prison, while Rodriguez was sentenced in 2012 to 16 years, according to court records.
Remigio’s defense attorney, Frederick McBride, tried to argue for a lesser sentence, based on the fact that Remigio was a minor at the time of the crime – and the mother got her baby back right away. He also said that Remigio had a “sad life” and she did not understand the consequences of her ridiculous actions.
The Judge, Robert Fitzgerald, would have none of that however. He noted the seriousness of the crime and hammered Remigio with a 16-year sentence, with some credit for five years of time that have already been served.
If only Fitzgerald had been the Judge on the other case that concluded this week with a punk getting one year in jail after he mercilessly attacked a grandfather with a baseball bat, after the old man lost his balance and fell on the younger’ man’s car at a gas station in Santa Ana…
