Trial set in July for Iowa City man accused of leaving toddler home alone
Jorge Perez (Johnson County Sheriff's Office)An Iowa City man arrested in April on suspicion of leaving a 20-month-old toddler home alone for up to 20 minutes has pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to...
View Article‘I never meant to kill him,’ suspect in boy’s death tells police
Jorge Perez and Bianca Balderas MireyaIOWA CITY — Hours after being arrested in connection with the April 30 death of a 20-month-old boy, an Iowa City couple made their first appearance in a Johnson...
View ArticleMother, boyfriend plead not guilty in boy’s death
Jorge Perez and Bianca Balderas Mireya IOWA CITY — An 18-year-old Iowa City mother and her boyfriend have pleaded not guilty to charges of child endangerment resulting in death.Mireya Balderas and...
View ArticleSept. 4 trial set for Iowa City couple in toddler death
Jorge Perez and Bianca Balderas Mireya A trial date in September has been set for an Iowa City mother and her boyfriend accused in the April death of the woman’s 20-month-old son.Both Mireya Balderas,...
View ArticleSexual assault now seems unlikely in Iowa City toddler’s death, police say
Jorge Perez and Bianca Balderas MireyaUPDATE: New information made public Friday indicates that five days before an Iowa City toddler died of injuries that police believe resulted from abuse, a...
View ArticleMisdemeanor charge dropped against Iowa City man accused in toddler’s death
Jorge PerezThe Johnson County Attorney’s Office has dropped charges against an Iowa City man for allegedly leaving a 20-month-old toddler home alone in April, because that man now faces more serious...
View ArticleIowa City teen mom wants explanation of charges in toddler’s death
Mireya Bianca BalderasThe Johnson County Attorney’s Office has clarified its reasons for charging both a teenage mother and her boyfriend in the death of an Iowa City toddler after the mother requested...
View ArticleTrial postponed for Iowa City mother accused in toddler death
Mireya Bianca BalderasAn 18-year-old Iowa City mother facing charges in connection with her toddler son’s death has waived her right to a speedy trial and had the case reset for trial in...
View ArticleTrial for Iowa City man accused in toddler death will likely be delayed
Jorge PerezThe Iowa City man accused in the death of his girlfriend’s toddler has waived his right to a speedy trial, meaning his case likely won’t go before a jury on Sept. 4 as originally...
View ArticleIowa City man accused in toddler death has new trial date in December
Jorge PerezAn Iowa City man accused in the death of his girlfriend’s son has a new trial date in December.Jorge Perez, 21, who faces two charges of child endangerment resulting in death, waived his...
View ArticleNew trial date set for Iowa City mom accused in toddler’s death
An Iowa City mother accused in the death of her 20-month-old son has a new trial date after a Johnson County judge last month agreed to try her apart from her boyfriend and co-defendant.Mireya...
View ArticleIowa City mother accused in toddler death allowed to live with her father...
Mireya Balderas appears in Johnson County District Court via television monitor from the Johnson County Jail on Monday, June 11, 2012, on a charge of Child Endangerment Resulting in Death, in the case...
View ArticleTrial postponed for Iowa City teen accused in son’s death
The trial for an Iowa City teenage mother accused along with her boyfriend in the 2012 death of her 20-month-old son has been pushed back three weeks.Mireya Balderas, 19, was supposed to be tried on a...
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