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SALINAS, California ( KSBW ) -- A Watsonville mother has pleaded guilty to abandoning her newborn son over 30 years ago, causing his death along Garin Road in the Las Lomas area.

Monterey County District Attorney Jeannine M. Pacioni said that Pamela Ferreyra, 61, pleaded guilty to one count of voluntary manslaughter and one count of felony child abuse for the December 1994 death of her infant son.

Pamela Ferreyra in court Friday. Watsonville mother accused of killing newborn in 1994 pleads not guilty She will be sentenced to 13 years and four months in state prison in February 2026, per Pacioni.

“On December 3, 1994, the partial remains of a two-to-three-day-old baby boy were discovered off Garin Road in Prunedale,” said Pacioni. “An autopsy confi

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