{"id":86817,"date":"2025-12-08T23:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/86817\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T23:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:43:12","slug":"couple-accused-of-torturing-killing-genesis-mata-to-appear-in-court-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/86817\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple accused of torturing, killing Genesis Mata to appear in court on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield couple <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/8-year-old-girl-found-dead-in-bakersfield-hotel-bathtub-two-arrested\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">accused of torturing and killing their daughter, Genesis Mata<\/a>, are set to appear in court Thursday for a readiness hearing. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FILE (KBAK\/KBFX){p}{\/p}{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ffb3b264-cf52-4734-ba20-849fc86a8a11-Sequence_MILLS_MATABUSTAMONTEPREPRE_0001_frame_0.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mata Junior and Graciela Bustamonte face seven felony charges, including murder, child cruelty, and torture, in connection with the death of 8-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/search?find=Genesis+Mata\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Genesis Mata<\/a> in August. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A death investigation is underway after a body was discovered inside the La Quinta Inn in central Bakersfield, according to the Bakersfield Police Department. This is a photo of the crime scene on August 2, 2025. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/337d67ae-32e6-4ac0-a5f4-96a8ca71f571-Image21.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A death investigation is underway after a body was discovered inside the La Quinta Inn in central Bakersfield, according to the Bakersfield Police Department. This is a photo of the crime scene on August 2, 2025. PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/court-documents-reveal-horrific-abuse-leading-to-death-of-8-year-old-girl-hotel-central-bakersfield-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RELATED: Court documents reveal horrific abuse leading to death of 8-year-old girl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Genesis was Mata Junior&#8217;s daughter and Bustamonte&#8217;s stepdaughter. If convicted, the couple could face the death penalty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield couple accused of torturing and killing their daughter, Genesis Mata, are set to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-86817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86817","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=86817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}