Genevieve Moniqui "Genny" Rojas
Facts of the Crime:
In San Diego County, on August 9, 1998, a Chula Vista woman, Veronica Gonzales, joined her husband on death row for submerging their nearly four-year-old niece, Genny Rojas, in a bathtub of water so hot it peeled the skin from her body. "Oh, God, no!" Gonzales exclaimed when the verdict was read. She then covered her face with her hands and began sobbing. She was later taken out of the courtroom in a wheelchair.
Gonzales' husband, Ivan, had previously been sentenced to death for the girl's murder. The couple are the first in California to face execution for the same crime. During her six-week trial, Veronica Gonzales testified that her husband was to blame for the murder, saying she suffered from battered woman's syndrome.
Genny died on July 21, 1995, six months after she was sent to live with the Gonzaleses and their six children. Her mother was in drug rehabilitation and her father was in jail for child molestation.
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