{"id":54281,"date":"2025-11-15T08:52:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/54281\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T08:52:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:52:04","slug":"woman-who-allegedly-attacked-genesis-matas-stepmom-in-jail-pleads-no-contest-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/54281\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman who allegedly attacked Genesis Mata&#8217;s stepmom in jail pleads no contest: Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Kern County Superior Court records show that the inmate accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/inmate-accused-of-killing-8-year-old-girl-assaulted-at-lerdo-facility-genesis-mata-bakersfield-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">attacking  Graciela Bustamonte<\/a>, 8-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/search?find=Genesis+Mata\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Genesis Mata&#8217;s<\/a> stepmom, on August 8, has pleaded no contest.<\/p>\n<p>Anita Doron allegedly attacked Bustamonte inside Lerdo Jail, according to the Kern County Sheriff&#8217;s Office. Bustamonte is in jail awaiting trial for <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/8-year-old-girl-found-dead-in-bakersfield-hotel-bathtub-two-arrested\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">allegedly torturing and killing Mata in August 2025<\/a>. Her body was found in a tub at the La Quinta Inn on Riverside Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Father of Genesis, Ray Mata Jr., was also arrested.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/child-abuse-bustamonte-genesis-mata-ray-mata-cps-bakersfield-lerdo-jail-assault\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Inmate claims personal motive in attack on Graciela Bustamonte<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bustamonte and Mata Jr. were recently held to answer on all counts regarding the death of Genesis.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bakersfield-couple-held-to-answer-on-charges-in-the-death-of-genesis-mata-murder-case-court-crime-sentence-superior-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bakersfield couple held to answer on charges in the death of Genesis Mata<\/a><br \/>Doron is due for sentencing on Dec. 11, 2025, at the Shafter branch of the Kern County Superior Court. She faces a charge of felony assault.  A second charge was dismissed, court records show.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bustamonte and Mata Jr. are scheduled to appear in court on December 11 for a readiness hearing before a tentative trial date of December 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Kern County Superior Court records show that the inmate accused of attacking Graciela Bustamonte, 8-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-54281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54281","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=54281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}