SPRINGFIELD — “Nunca, nunca, nunca,” Miguel Fonseca-Colon, the defendant standing trial for the killing of 5-month-old Jadamier Cintron, told Springfield police in 2013.
“Never, never, never,” he repeated dozens of times in Spanish throughout his interview in January of that year, breaking down into sobs by the end of the interrogation, according to a video played for jurors in Hampden Superior Court on Thursday.
Fonseca-Colon, 35, has been charged with murder and assault and battery in connection with baby Jadamier’s death on Jan. 16, 2013. The following year, police arrested him, accusing him of pummeling the 14-pound infant, breaking 32 bones in his rib cage and skull, and puncturing his spleen. Fonseca-Colon has been held without the right to bail since then.
A medical examiner testified on Wednesday that the baby died of blunt force trauma to his head and torso, adding the child suffered significant internal bleeding.
“Nunca, nunca, nunca,” remained Fonseca-Colon’s mantra during the initial interview at police headquarters, two days after the baby was pronounced dead at Baystate Medical Center.
Fonseca-Colon was the last to hold the infant when the child’s mother, Diana Llanos, left him in the defendant’s care while she ran to a convenience store that night. Fonseca-Colon told detectives he only held the baby — who appeared ill and fussy all day — for three or four minutes and then placed him in a car seat on Llanos’ bed.
The baby had been at the emergency room earlier in the day for a potential respiratory infection, but was released with no medication aside from a prescription for Pedialyte to restore fluids.
Fonseca-Colon had been renting a room in Llanos’ 54 Washburn St. duplex for a little more than a month, testimony has shown. The apartment has been portrayed at trial as a revolving door of visitors, temporary roommates and frequent parties featuring plenty of drugs, alcohol and cigarettes.
Llanos had four children at the time, but Jadamier was the only one in her custody, she testified earlier this week. The state had taken custody of her others, including one baby girl, her namesake, immediately after birth because she tested positive for drugs.
Llanos, who took the witness stand for hours over two days, told the jury she saw having Jadamier as a chance to prove her fitness as a mother — her “time to shine,” she testified.
Defense attorney David Hoose zeroed in on Llanos’ poor parenting history, her admitted drug use and history of mental illness earlier on Thursday.
“When is the last time you used PCP?” he asked.
“Probably a couple of months ago,” she responded.
“Part of what your emotional difficulties have been is controlling anger, is that correct?” Hoose continued.
“Something like that,” she answered.
Hoose also highlighted a string of inconsistent statements Llanos made to police, the grand jury, prosecutors and the jury. For instance, the defense lawyer asked whether she had told police she noticed a bruise on Jadamier’s foot at 9:09 p.m., before Fonseca-Colon even arrived home. She denied it; Hoose responded by playing a video clip of her interview with Springfield police the day after Jadamier died.
“9:09 p.m.? That’s when you noticed the bruising?” Capt. Trent Duda asks on the video.
Llanos insisted she didn’t say anything about bruising, but Hoose pressed.
“You think the police just plucked that out of the air?” he said.
Llanos previously testified that Fonseca-Colon arrived home around 9:30 p.m.
Fonseca-Colon told investigators Llanos handed him the baby, “hard crying,” and he held Jadamier only briefly. He then placed the infant in the car seat and went to his own room. The baby quieted, he said.
Llanos’ peeked in on the baby, whom she assumed was sleeping, and went across the hall to Fonseca-Colon’s room to smoke marijuana and talk for nearly two hours. After that, she sat on the bed and discovered her baby was not breathing.
She started screaming, “The baby, the baby!” the defendant told police.
Testimony resumes Friday morning. The trial, which began Monday, is expected to last up to two weeks.
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