A woman accused of ramming her ex-boyfriend's pregnant girlfriend with her SUV pleaded not guilty today to murdering the baby -- which was delivered but did not survive -- and trying to kill the mother.
Monica Mercado, 27, is charged with one count each of murder and attempted murder.
The victim, who was at least seven months pregnant, was struck by the vehicle about 10:30 a.m. April 5, after the two women got into an argument at 102nd Street and Towne Avenue in South Los Angeles, authorities said.
The baby was born alive by Caesarean section, but died of head trauma.
The criminal complaint alleges that Mercado "knew or should have known" that the woman was pregnant and that the injury resulted in the termination of the pregnancy. (She had been in a car with the victim and her ex-boyfriend, so how did she not know about the baby. What do you think they had been arguing about? She meant to run over that girl, and to hurt because she had her man.)
Mercado turned herself in later that day at the Los Angeles Police Department's Newton station, and has remained jailed since then.
She is due back in Compton Superior Court on May 11, when a date is scheduled to be set for a hearing to determine if there is enough evidence to require her to stand trial.
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