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Texas couple who dissolved 2-year-old daughter's body in tub of acid claim she accidentally drowned during bath

Following a tip, police searched the apartment and found the young girl's remains in a five-gallon container in a bedroom closet that appeared to have acid in it. When questioned, her mother denied killing the girl and insisted it was an accident
UPDATED FEB 18, 2020
(Source : Police Department)
(Source : Police Department)

LAREDO, TEXAS: A Texas couple who dissolved their child's remains in a tub of acid have pleaded guilty to their charges and have been sentenced to prison.

The horrific crime came to light this past February when the dissolved remains of two-year-old Rebecka Zavala, the daughter of 38-year-old Monica Dominguez and her 33-year-old husband Gerardo Zavala-Loredo, was found in a container in an apartment in west-central Laredo, according to the Laredo Morning Times

Following a tip, police searched the apartment and found the young girl's remains in a five-gallon container in a bedroom closet that appeared to have acid in it. When questioned, Dominguez denied killing the girl and insisted it was an accident.

She said two of her children were not supervised when they were bathing and that Rebecka had drowned. Because of the condition in which they found the two-year-old, investigators could not determine if she had been killed and could not bring murder charges against Dominguez and her husband.

It emerged that it was not the mother's first run-in with authorities. In September 2015, her nine-month-old son was found to have suffered six fractures, two to his right arm, and two to each leg.

While she initially denied hurting the child, she pleaded guilty in 2016 to injury of a child and was sentenced to 10 years' probation. After the discovery of Rebecka's remains, Dominguez was sentenced to 10 years in prison for violating the conditions of her probation.

This past week, she pleaded guilty to charges of tampering with evidence of a human corpse, a second-degree felony, endangering a child, a state jail felony, and abuse of a corpse, another state jail felony.

She was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the first count and two years each for the other two counts. She will serve 20 years as the sentence will run consecutively with her 10-year revocation sentence for violating her probation period.

Zavala-Loredo accepted a plea deal that saw him plead guilty to tampering with evidence of a human corpse and received a 14-year sentence. Child protective services have taken custody of their four other children, aged between 1 and 11.

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