NY - Monica Lozada-Rivadeneira, 26, found dead in landfill, Queens, 24 Sept 2005

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An autopsy is underway in Pennsylvania on the body of a woman police believe may be a murdered mother from Queens.

The naked body was found yesterday buried under 18 feet of garbage. Medical examiners are now trying to determine if the remains are that of Monica Lozada, who vanished last month.
Police say her ex-boyfriend - Cesar Ascarrunz - admitted to strangling Lozada. He then allegedly abandoned Lozada's four-year-old daughter Valery on a street in Queens.

So many New Yorkers were concerned for the well-being of that little girl and Thursday her grandmother was at the Bolivian Embassy with a very important message that they want their little girl back.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=3515552
 
The medical examiner sought fingerprint and dental records Saturday to determine if a body recovered from a Pennsylvania landfill was a Bolivian immigrant allegedly killed by her boyfriend two weeks ago.

"We're hoping to have an answer by the end of the week," said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner.

Some dental records may still be in Bolivia, she said.

Monica Lozada-Rivadineira, 26, was last seen Sept. 24. Her boyfriend, Cesar Ascarrunz, 32, remains jailed without bail on a murder charge, and authorities have said he confessed to choking her to death.
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/12855453.htm
 
Are both of the grandmothers from Bolivia? It sounds like that is where the paternal grandmother is from. Anyone know where the maternal grandmother is from? I wonder if either of the grandmothers even know Valery. Has anyone seen anything else about the grandmothers in the paper?

I also wonder why Monica was naked when she was found in the landfill.
Are we really supposed to believe that Monica was running around the apt. naked jabbing at the killer with a knife!!
 
The grandmothers of a little girl found abandoned on the streets of Queens discussed custody arrangements for the preschooler Monday, the first time the pair had seen each other since the alleged murder of the child's mother.

"It was a very positive meeting," Enrique Salas, the victim's maternal uncle, told the Daily News in Tuesday's editions. "We both said we want what's best for Valery."

While both sides of the family have said they're interested in assuming custody of the 4-year-old, the decision will ultimately fall to a family court judge.
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/nation/12873255.htm
 
A Family Court judge on Friday granted temporary custody to maternal relatives of a 4-year-old girl who stole the hearts of New Yorkers and Bolivians when she was found wandering the streets barefoot after her mother's alleged slaying.
Valery Belen Saavedra Lozada — pigtailed, chubby-cheeked and precocious — is "very little to understand that her mother's not coming back," said her great uncle, Enrique Salas.

"But she knows Mama is up in heaven watching over her."

Salas spoke outside a small Queens courtroom that was the setting of both the custody hearing — filled with Valery's relatives, including two grandmothers — and an arraignment of the man accused of killing her mother, Monica Lozada-Rivadineira.

The victim's family had no discernible reaction to defendant Cesar Ascarrunz, who sat off to the side with his attorney.

At the arraignment, Ascarrunz entered a "general denial" to a charge of child neglect through his lawyer, Christopher Renfroe. He is being held without bail and faces a murder charge in a different court.

Judge Marybeth Richroth set a Feb. 17 trial to determine permanent custody. She did not name the family member granted temporary custody of Valery, but said it was on her mother's side of the family, on the recommendation of the Administration for Children's Services.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/breaking_news/story/355748p-303173c.html
 
A Family Court judge placed little Valery Lozada in the care of her strangled mother's relatives yesterday, after a hearing in which her two grandmothers faced down the vicious fiend accused of killing her mom and abandoning her on a darkened Queens street.
The tragic 4-year-old will be now able to leave foster care for more familiar surroundings at the home of family members in New York.

While a judge and children's-services officials would not say specifically who would take care of the child, her great-uncle Enrique Salas said she would be placed in the College Point home of his daughter, Yvonska Herbas, and that the family was awaiting Valery's arrival last night. http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/55450.htm
 
mysteriew said:
A Family Court judge placed little Valery Lozada in the care of her strangled mother's relatives yesterday, after a hearing in which her two grandmothers faced down the vicious fiend accused of killing her mom and abandoning her on a darkened Queens street.
The tragic 4-year-old will be now able to leave foster care for more familiar surroundings at the home of family members in New York.

While a judge and children's-services officials would not say specifically who would take care of the child, her great-uncle Enrique Salas said she would be placed in the College Point home of his daughter, Yvonska Herbas, and that the family was awaiting Valery's arrival last night. http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/55450.htm
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I'm so glad that our little sweetie gets to go live with her mother's family.
The court date in Feb is probably just a signing of the final papers for custody.

I wonder if Monica had sisters? Kind of strange that Valery would go live with Monica's great uncle's daughter. Wonder why not Monica's mother? Just my curosity getting the best of me. I'm sure the family spent hours talking this all out and coming up with the decision that they felt would be best for little Valery. I just want her to have a life filled with love.
 
Bobbisangel said:
I'm so glad that our little sweetie gets to go live with her mother's family.
The court date in Feb is probably just a signing of the final papers for custody.

I wonder if Monica had sisters? Kind of strange that Valery would go live with Monica's great uncle's daughter. Wonder why not Monica's mother? Just my curosity getting the best of me. I'm sure the family spent hours talking this all out and coming up with the decision that they felt would be best for little Valery. I just want her to have a life filled with love.
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From what I have read, most of Monica's remained in Bolivia. She often sent money home for them. My guess would be the judge would weigh heavily on the fact that she brought her daughter to the US, so she evidently wanted her to be raised here. And from what I have read Valery and Monica once lived with the great uncle and was familiar with the great uncle's dau.
 
The identity of a body found in a Pennsylvania landfill has been confirmed Wednesday as that of a young Queens mother whose daughter was found wandering the streets barefoot three weeks ago.

The Medical Examiner's office says the body found October 6 was in fact that of 26-year-old Monica Lozada-Rivadineira.

http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=54355
 
The body of the mother of abandoned 4-year-old Valery Lozada has now been formally identified.
The city Medical Examiner has determined from fingerprints that the corpse found dumped in a Pennsylvania landfill on Oct. 6 is that of Monica Lozada-Rivadineira.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/55702.htm
 
She wore a dark green velvet dress, had her hair in pigtails and asked to see her mommy one last time.
Little Valery Lozada, the 4-year-old girl abandoned on the streets of Queens, had last been at her mother's side seven weeks ago - shortly before her mom was strangled and stuffed into a black plastic bag.

Clutching a goodbye card, Valery asked the minister at her mom's funeral Mass to open the coffin yesterday morning. He obliged.

Valery slipped a blue envelope - with the words "To Mom" scrawled on it - inside and gently kissed the coffin. She began to sob as it was carried out of Our Lady of Loreto Church in Brooklyn. Once her tears fell, the rest of the congregants cried, too.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/364812p-310678c.html

Heartbroken 4-year-old Valery Lozada sobbed hysterically yesterday in Brooklyn as her mother's mahogany casket was carried away from her.
"Could I see my mommy? Could I see my mommy?" the tragic tot cried as her quiet tears turned to gut-wrenching wails.

Within seconds, every one at the funeral Mass for Valery's mother, Monica Lozada-Rivadineira, was crying with her.

"It was a heartache to watch," said funeral director Anthony Cassieri.

Valery — the pigtailed youngster abandoned on a Queens street in September after her mother was killed — had kept her tears in check until she saw the casket being wheeled out of Our Lady of Loreto Church in East New York.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/57339.htm
 
That poor little girl. I wonder just how much she understood at the service? I think it is hard for a little child that age to have a full understanding of death.
Maybe it would have been better if she hadn't been taken to the service. She had already been through so much.
 
http://www.courttv.com/news/2005/1121/lozada_ctv.html

A Queens County grand jury has returned a multiple-count indictment against a Bolivian man for murdering his former girlfriend and abandoning her 4-year-old daughter on a dark street in the middle of the night.

Cesar Ascarrunz, 32, was charged with seven counts Monday related to the disappearance and murder of Monica Lozada, whose body was discovered in a Pennsylvania landfill nearly two weeks after her daughter, Valery, was found shoeless and crying on a dark street in Middle Village, Queens on Sept. 25, 2005.
 
Michelle Read said:
Shame he will be released from jail (with good time) probably before the little girl turns 18. Just doesn't seem right. :furious:

http://www.crimelibrary.com/news/ap/0206/1704_killed_ex_girlfriend.html
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I was just thinking about little Valery today and wondering how she is doing.
I'll never forget her beautiful little face.

He hasn't been to trial yet has he? There are quite a lot of charges against him. Maybe they will give him LW0P. I sure hope so. Are they charging him with 1st degree murder plus all of the other charges? I sure hope so because he planned to kill the mother.
 
NEW YORK -- A man who killed his ex-girlfriend and left her 4-year-old daughter wandering the streets of Queens, N.Y., was sentenced Wednesday to 32 years in prison.



Cesar Ascarrunz pleaded guilty last month to manslaughter and reckless endangerment. He admitted he killed Monica Lozada-Rivadineira and left her daughter, Valery, barefoot and alone in the middle of the night.



A murder verdict could have carried a life sentence.



Ascarrunz declined to speak in the courtroom, but his attorney said his client "took full responsibility for what happened."



The little girl drew national attention after child welfare workers put her on television in an attempt to track down her family. The chubby-cheeked child innocently described her 26-year-old mother as looking "like a princess."
http://www.ksat.com/news/8063547/detail.html
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:furious: DP would have been better.
 
The coldblooded killer who strangled a woman and then abandoned her 4-year-old daughter on a Queens street was sentenced to 32 years in prison yesterday - but not before the victim's mother tearfully confronted him in court.

"Why, why? Tell me, why did you kill her?" Monica Lozada's mother, Roxana Rivadineira, demanded of the killer, Cesar Ascarrunz. "She was a girl, a woman who wanted to live, who wanted to get ahead!"

"I cannot explain, unless he doesn't have a heart," Rivadineira said of Ascarrunz, who strangled Lozada in September and then dumped her beloved little daughter, Valery, on a street.


http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/63190.htm
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How awful this must be for her family! I cannot even begin to imagine.
 
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