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Jesenea Miron of Moreno Valley admitted the felony depend, in addition to a sentence-enhancing allegation of intent to deprive a guardian of their baby, underneath a pretrial settlement with the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. In alternate for her admissions, prosecutors agreed to drop three associated counts in opposition to Miron.
Superior Court Judge Emma Smith scheduled a sentencing listening to for Sept. 10 on the Riverside Hall of Justice. There was no specification as to a possible time period of imprisonment or jail time.
Miron stays held with out bail on the Smith Correctional Facility in Banning.
Her case went inactive for practically two years whereas she was diverted right into a psychological well being therapy program operated by the Riverside University Health System and monitored by the court docket. That course of concluded final week.
According to sheriff’s Sgt. Richard Fransik, on the morning of July 15, 2022, the defendant accessed the medical heart campus on Cactus Avenue and recognized herself as a newly employed nurse, enabling her to enter the maternity ward.
Fransik stated whereas on the ward, Miron entered a room occupied by a lady and her toddler daughter. The defendant launched herself as a nurse.
“While contained in the affected person’s room, she tried to take the new child,” he stated. “The suspect was confronted by hospital workers, who then notified safety.”
Court paperwork indicated that the newborn was briefly within the defendant’s possession however was not faraway from the hospital and was not harmed, nor was the mom, whose identification was not launched.
Miron fled earlier than deputies assigned to the medical heart might apprehend her. However, detectives adopted up and had been in a position to procure proof confirming the defendant’s identification, in keeping with Fransik.
A search warrant was served at her residence on Weber Avenue a few days later, leading to “objects of evidentiary worth” being seized, the sergeant stated.
She was taken into custody with out incident.
In the wake of Miron’s arrest, medical heart CEO Jennifer Cruikshank stated that “safety protocols” had been “reviewed and strengthened, and we’ve got further sheriff’s deputies on campus.”
She credited her “vigilant workers” with stopping Miron from escaping the hospital with the toddler.
She had no documented prior felony or misdemeanor convictions in Riverside County.
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