A Rabun County woman will spend the next 25 years of her life in prison after pleading guilty in the death of her daughter. Mountain Judicial Circuit Court District Attorney George Christian says 25-year-old Alma Leticia Lazara-Leon today pled guilty to second degree murder in Rabun County Superior Court.
Lazara-Leon was charged with causing her daughter’s death by “negligently causing the baby cruel and excessive physical and mental pain by not providing her with professional medical treatment.”
According to the facts of the case, Lazara-Leon gave birth to an infant girl on November 7, 2016 while at a job work site in the Dillard area of Rabun County. After giving birth, she did not call 911 or notify her co-workers that she’d delivered her baby. Instead, the DA’s office says, “Ms. Lazara-Leon wrapped the baby in cloth and left it on a porch of the house where she was working. Later that day she returned to the house and removed the baby from the porch to an adjacent wooded area and left the baby.”
Authorities became aware of the child the following day when a homeowner near the wooded area saw her dog with an object that was determined to be the baby’s remains.
The Rabun County Sheriff’s Office and Georgia Bureau of Investigation were called to the scene and conducted the investigation. In an interview, the DA says Lazara-Leon told a special agent with the GBI that she thought the baby was dead when it was born.
Upon entering her plea, Lazara-Leon was sentenced by Rabun County Superior Court Judge Russell Smith to 30 years, 25 to be served in prison.
