Published: 11.17.2006

Police: Suspect in killing of 1-year-old Phoenix girl in Mexico
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Phoenix police say they've confirmed that a 17-year-old suspect sought in the death of his girlfriend's 1-year-old daughter in Phoenix is now in Mexico – that he had crossed the border before the crime was reported.
Police say Abraham Penaloza-Serrano's girlfriend left for work Wednesday morning, leaving him to care for her four children, the oldest of whom is 8 years old.
When the girlfriend, Anna Vasquez, returned to their north Phoenix apartment Wednesday night, she found her four children had been left alone and that her 1-year-old daughter, Kathy, was dead.
Vasquez says one of other children told her that the suspect had kicked the baby because she was whining and wanted a bottle.
Police detectives believe the baby died of blunt force trauma, and that she was killed shortly after Vasquez left for work.
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