A couple who admitted to abducting a newborn from his mother's home in San Jose was sentenced Monday to prison.
A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge sentenced Yesenia Ramirez, 44, to 13 years behind bars. Her co-defendant Jose Portillo, 29, was sentenced to five years.
Ramirez and Portillo had previously agreed to an offer from the court, which meant they would not get the maximum amount of prison time they could have received. As a result, they did stand trial.a 3-month-old baby named Brandon in April 2022 from his mother's home. Brandon’s grandmother reported the kidnapping on April 24. San Jose police found the baby within 24 hours at a home near Regional Medical Center and returned him to his mother.
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