{"id":431039,"date":"2026-08-12T20:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431039\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T20:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:42:12","slug":"death-penalty-sought-for-mother-charged-with-spring-valley-girls-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431039\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Penalty Sought For Mother Charged With Spring Valley Girl&#8217;s Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision announced in court Tuesday, as well as in court filings dating back to June, means a jury would be tasked with deciding whether Leticia Diane McCormack, 53, is guilty of first-degree murder in the Aug. 30, 2022, death of Arabella McCormack, as well as whether she should face death or life in prison without the possibility of parole if she&#8217;s found guilty.<\/p>\n<p>McCormack and her parents, Adella Tom, 74, and Stanley Tom, 79, are all facing charges that include murder, torture, and child abuse in connection with Arabella&#8217;s death, as well as alleged abuse toward her two younger sisters. However, prosecutors will try the Toms separately and seek a maximum sentence of life without parole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The decision announced in court Tuesday, as well as in court filings dating back to June, means a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-431039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}