Yucaipa woman guilty on one felony count
From SUN Staff Reports
YUCAIPA - A jury has found a Yucaipa woman guilty on one felony count, but deadlocked on another count, in connection with the death of her 6-month old baby in 2006.
Jurors on Friday reached the verdict against defendant Lisa Marie VanDyne in San Bernardino Superior Court. VanDyne was found guilty of one count of willful cruelty to a child causing possible injury or death, according to court records.
But when jurors couldn't reach a concensus on a separate count, Judge Bryan F. Foster declared a mistrial on that count: A caretaker or custodian committing assault on a child with force likely to produce great bodily injury or death.
VanDyne is set to return to court Apr. 10 for a status hearing on the remaining count.
While prosecutors believe VanDyne could be responsible for a series of fractures and bruises that resulted in her daughter Iyana's death, the young mother's supporters have maintained she is innocent.
Sheriff's deputies were dispatched shortly after 9 a.m. on June 26, 2006 to VanDyne's mobile home on Third Street. VanDyne told a sheriff's deputy that she picked the baby up from her bassinet and her eyes rolled back in her head.
Iyana died at Loma Linda University Medical Center.
Coroner's personnel later found bruises on the baby's forehead, around her eyes, chest, left arm and right shoulder. Iyana's liver was lacerated, and she had suffered fractured ribs and skull fractures.
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