A Virginia woman was sentenced Friday to 35 years for throwing her 2-year-old granddaughter off a walkway at a busy shopping mall, a murder the judge called 'almost beyond comprehension.'
Carmela dela Rosa, 51, offered a tearful, barely audible apology to her family, saying: 'I'm very sorry for what I've done.'
Dela Rosa, a naturalised US citizen born in the Philippines, killed her granddaughter Angelyn Ogdoc at the end of a family outing in November 2010 to Tysons Corner Center.
The evidence at trial showed that she deliberately hung back with Angelyn as the family exited along a nearly 15m skywalk connecting the mall to a multi-level parking garage, so she could scoop up Angelyn and toss her over the guardrail without any interference from her family.
In a videotaped confession, dela Rosa told police she killed Angelyn to get back at her son-in-law for getting her daughter pregnant out of wedlock and ruining her daughter's opportunities for a better life.
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