A Wichita woman has been sentenced for her role in the death of her son.
Stephanie Aviles was sentenced to life-with-parole-eligibility after 25 years for the first-degree murder of two-year-old Jacob Aviles, and more than three years for child abuse and aggravated endangering a child.
Aviles will serve the sentences consecutively, making her eligible for parole after 25 years + 41 months.
On Sept. 29, 2019, Jacob was found unresponsive at a home near Kellogg & Seneca; at the time, he was in the care of Bernardo Gonzalez-Mejia, Aviles’ boyfriend.
A responding police officer to the boy’s death testified he saw Jacob with excessive bruising to his body; an autopsy also showed the boy suffered multiple contusions to the head, trunk and extremities.
Prosecutors said Aviles knew Gonzalez-Mejia was abusing Jacob, but continued to leave the child with him.
Gonzalez-Mejia faces the same charges of murder, child abuse, and child endangerment for Jacob’s death; Gonzalez-Mejia is set for trial in December.