{"id":191320,"date":"2015-02-09T04:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=191320"},"modified":"2015-02-09T04:00:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T18:00:45","slug":"guam-woman-charged-murder-infant-sons-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/guam-woman-charged-murder-infant-sons-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Guam woman is charged with  murder for infant son\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HAGATNA, Guam<\/strong> (AP)\u2014Murder charges have been filed against a Guam woman accused of abusing and neglecting her 2-month-old son who died in September.<\/p>\n<p>Pacific Daily News reports Melenie Irene Margaret Villagomez Borja pleaded not guilty by reason of mental illness Wednesday at Guam Superior Court.<\/p>\n<p>Borja faces charges of aggravated murder and first-degree murder, plus charges of manslaughter, child abuse and negligent homicide in connection with the Sept. 24 death of the infant, Joziyah Matthew Borja.<\/p>\n<p>Borja also faces allegations of aggravated assault, as well as seven new counts of child abuse, with each charge referring to a different child at her home.<\/p>\n<p>The medical examiner determined the infant died of neglect, was malnourished and hadn\u2019t received medical attention.<\/p>\n<p>Borja faces life in prison if convicted of aggravated murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAGATNA, Guam (AP)\u2014Murder charges have been filed against a Guam woman accused of abusing and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1806,1807,21,1808],"class_list":["post-191320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-hagatna","tag-joziyah-matthew-borja","tag-life","tag-pacific-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}