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Carmela dela Rosa AP Photo/Fairfax County, Va., Police Department
US
Woman found guilty of throwing two-year-old granddaughter off a bridge
Angelyn Ogdoc died after she was thrown off a 45-foot-high skywalk in the US state of Virginia last November.
A JURY IN the US has convicted a Virginia grandmother of murder for tossing her two-year-old granddaughter from a pedestrian bridge at a shopping centre.
The Fairfax County jury rejected a claim that 50-year-old Carmela dela Rosa was insane at the time.
She threw Angelyn Ogdoc off the 45-foot-high skywalk at Tysons Corner Centre last November.
Prosecutors say dela Rosa clearly understood right from wrong and was motivated by anger at her son-in-law for getting her daughter pregnant out of wedlock.
Defence witnesses testified that dela Rosa was diagnosed with severe depression and tried to kill herself on several occasions in the months after the incident.
The trial moves to the sentencing phase, where the jury must decide on a prison term.
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