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Bail reduction denied mother in baby’s death

Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2002 | 9:14 a.m.

District Court Judge Donald Mosley denied a request Monday to reduce the bail for a woman charged with second-degree murder in the death of her 18-month-old daughter, who prosecutors allege was left to starve to death in a bedroom in her Henderson home.

Sophia Mendoza, 20, in addition to the murder charge, faces four counts of abuse and neglect. Her daughter was found dead on Oct. 1, and her other four children were found ill and living in squalor.

Special Public Defender Phil Kohn asked that Mendoza's bail be reduced from $250,000 to $50,000, saying that his client is no longer a danger to her children because she is forbidden from seeing them.

Chief Deputy District Attorney Vicki Monroe argued that Mendoza's bail should remain at $250,000.

The children's father, Demone Tisdale, 21, is being held on $500,000 bail.

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