Teenager Hires Gangsters to Kidnap a Newborn
A teenager has been arrested in Santa Ana, California for allegedly hiring gang members to kidnap a newborn.
Gladys Remigio, 17, is accused of entering the home of a woman identified only as “Norma” the morning of Nov. 29 with Robert Rodriguez, 19, and Steven Quirino, 20, according to The Daily News.
Remigio and one man entered Norma’s bedroom with a gun and ordered her to go to the bathroom. Norma managed to escape and the two men fled the home. When she got outside, she saw Remigio with her newborn.
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The story is sordid on many levels. Initially, police thought Remigio was also a victim of the robbery. Later, they learned that she had been renting Norma’s home with her father. She is engaged to a man who believed that she was 8 months pregnant and living in New York, both of which were lies.
Remigio’s plan was to befriend a family with a two-week-old baby, pay two men to come in to steal a few things including the newborn and flee to Chula Vista where her boyfriend lives. But when the plan went awry, she sprung into Plan B.
Upset with the gang members for not finishing the job, she went to police and told them she knew where they could find one of the men: at a local doughnut shop. He is now in police custody.
Remigio then headed to San Diego county where she told her fiancé’s mother that she had been kidnapped and induced into labor where she gave birth to a still birth child that she threw in a dumpster. The fiancé’s mother was stunned not only by the story but because Remigio was supposedly in New York.
The boyfriend’s mother immediately contacted the police. But Remigio’s story did not add up during an initial interview and with officials and after a second interview she admitted she made up the entire story. She confessed that she thought she was pregnant but wasn’t and wanted to keep her fiancé.
The second gang member is also in police custody. Remigio is charged with one felony count of each of the following: conspiracy to commit a crime, first degree residential robbery, first degree residential robbery, and attempted kidnapping with sentencing enhancements for criminal street gang activity. She will be tried as an adult, and if convicted on each charge; Remigio faces the maximum sentence of life in state prison.
