‘The ultimate tragedy’: Rochester woman sentenced for killing her baby in 2021
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Before being sentenced for killing her daughter, Mabel Rosado-Delgado threw herself on the mercy of the court.
Through a translator, she told Monroe County Supreme Court Judge Victoria Argento she had endured a bad childhood. On June 13, 2021, Delgado-Rosado said she had found herself in the worst of situations.
It was an argument Argento did not buy, and she sentenced Rosado-Delgado to 25 years in prison for killing her three-month-old daughter, Karen.
In January, Mabel Rosado-Delgado pleaded guilty to causing her daughter’s death.
An investigation found she beat Karen, causing blunt-force injuries at her Eastman Avenue home in June 2021. She drove the injured baby to Rochester General Hospital, where she died about 30 minutes after arriving.
Mabel Rosado-Delgado (File photo)
“I say that it’s the ultimate tragedy because when you lose a child, it’s the loss of potential,” Assistant District Attorney Sara Van Strydonck. “Because as I said, could she have been a judge? Could she have been the next president? Could she have been the next public defender, defending someone like her mom? You don’t know.”