Stephanie Lopez, the mother of Baby Brianna Lopez, will be eligible for parole this year. Her up-coming release has sparked outrage on a global scale. However, the New Mexico parole board has stated that, essentially, their hands are tied.
The murder of Baby Brianna Lopez
Baby Brianna was born on Valentines day in 2002 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She died at the age of five-months and five days old, on July 19, 2002 at the hands of her mother Stephanie Lopez, her father ,Andy Walters, and her uncle ,Steven Lopez.
The autopsy finds she died from cranial cerebral injuries. She suffered 13 human bite marks bruises and scrapes over her entire body and was raped anally and vaginally with a 1 inch gape of her anus at time of death, two bleeding head wounds and ruptured internals from rape .