‘I am not taking responsibility’: Woman convicted of murdering boyfriend with hammer is defiant during sentencing

Screengrab via KFSN. Inset: Rosa Baca (via Tulare County (Calif.) District Attorney’s Office).

Rosa Baca, a California woman who was convicted of first-degree murder for brutally beating and torturing her boyfriend to death with a hammer in 2018 was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility for parole on Monday.

Appearing in a Tulare County courtroom for her sentencing hearing in a bright orange prison-issued jumpsuit, glasses and with her long black hair swept to the side, Baca, 55, remained defiant even after family members of her victim, Jose Salud Magaña, 38, graphically recounted the trauma of losing their loved one.

Magaña’s young niece burst into tears, ABC30 reported Monday, telling Baca — who stood just across the courtroom from her — that even two years after her uncle’s death, “all I can think about is my uncle not being here with me.”

“At family gatherings, all I think about is him not being with us. I have difficulty talking about it because all I want to do is cry,” Magaña’s niece, identified only as Ms. Ambriz, said on Monday as she delivered her highly emotional victim impact statement to the court.

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