A Queens babysitter who shook a 3-month-old boy to death tried to weasel her way out of an apology to the infant’s grieving parents today, prompting the judge to scream “Liar!’’ at her from the bench.
“I know I did not do it,” said Ana De La Rosa, 27, moments before Queens Supreme Court Justice Richard Buchter sentenced her to 11 years in prison in a plea deal for the fatal assault of 3-month-old Addison Reynoso-Xoyatla during a blizzard in December 2010.
“You are a liar! You did it!” bellowed Justice Buchter.
“Did you shake the baby or not?” the judge asked.
“Yes,” she replied.
“You’re getting exactly what you deserve,” said the judge.
De La Rosa, a Mexican immigrant, had been facing 25 years to life in prison for violently shaking the crying child.
“Shaken baby cases are the cruelest…This is in deed a tragedy that will never be forgiven especially by a fake apology,” Buchter said.
Earlier this summer, De La Rosa had admitted to the judge — through a Spanish interpreter — that she “shook the baby hard,” an action that left the baby brain-dead.
“Only God knows what happened that day,” said Addison’s mom, Maria Xoyatla, as she sat in the courtroom with the child’s father.
Assistant District Attorney Leigh Bishop, who left the courtroom disgusted with the defendant’s lack of remorse, said, “The loss of this child’s life in inexcusable.”
De La Rosa faces deportation after she completes her prison sentence.