{"id":478123,"date":"2026-10-27T12:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478123\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:30:09","slug":"fort-worth-babysitter-sentenced-to-30-years-for-suffocation-death-of-9-month-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478123\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth babysitter sentenced to 30 years for suffocation death of 9-month-old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-20.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-31bc2d2e=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A Fort Worth babysitter will spend 30 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to murder in the suffocation death of a 9-month-old boy.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">On Nov. 4, 2024, Fort Worth police officers, fire crews, and MedStar personnel responded to a call at a home on West Vista Circle regarding an unresponsive baby.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Dulce Gomez, 59, was babysitting the infant, identified by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner as Fabian Arjon.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Paramedics transported the 9-month-old to a local hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead. The Tarrant County District Attorney&#8217;s Office determined the baby died from suffocation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Gomez pleaded guilty to murder, and a judge sentenced her to 30 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Officials did not release specific details on the events leading up to the suffocation or explain Gomez&#8217;s relationship with the baby&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The Tarrant County District Attorney&#8217;s Office posted a statement to their Facebook:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">&#8220;Thanks to the Fort Worth Police Department for their work on this case and for their commitment to keeping our community safe,&#8221; prosecutors said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this article comes from the Tarrant County District Attorney&#8217;s Office and the Fort Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/fort-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A Fort Worth babysitter will spend 30 years in prison after she pleaded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1046,116,118,117,223,122,216,393],"class_list":["post-478123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-news","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}