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[District Attorney] – A Newhall man was sentenced Tuesday to 50 years to life in state prison for the special-circumstances murder of his 19-day-old daughter.

mombabyDeputy District Attorney Julie Kramer said Matthew Brendan Warner, 30, entered a no contest plea to one count of first-degree murder and admitted a prior strike conviction on Sept. 2.

Before sentencing the defendant, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge David Walgren of the San Fernando Branch heard victim impact statements from the infant’s mother and grandmother.

Matthew Brendan Warner

Matthew Brendan Warner

The defendant killed Ellorah Rose Warner at their home in Newhall while the baby’s mother was at work on Jan. 23, the prosecutor said. Matthew Warner then claimed the newborn had been kidnapped and a search began to find her, the prosecutor added.

Warner eventually led authorities to the victim’s body which he had hidden in the cab of a truck parked in a nearby parking lot.

Case PA082876 was investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

 

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76 Comments

  1. Why not Death Penalty??!!!!?!?!

  2. Dorene Tapp says:

    I hope he serves every last second of his sentence. Hope “Bubba” gets hold of him every, single day,!

  3. I hope he suffers in jail!!! POS

  4. While this is terrific news, it comforts me knowing he’ll hopefully get raped over and over in prison.?

  5. I hope you like your new BF!

  6. Sandy Pinzon says:

    The artcle doesn’t mention anything about the rape conviction. Does anyone have information regarding that? I know it was one of his intial charges.

    • I believe there was a plea deal. They dropped that charge for him pleading no contest to the murder charge.

    • Sandy Pinzon says:

      Marianne Paletz Shean Wow unbelievable. There shouldn’t be a plea deal when raping a 19 day old baby…your own daughter at that :(

    • I agree. But, I believe the thought behind it was sparing the mother and rest of the family from enduring a trial.

    • April G says:

      Rape was not one of the charges. He was convicted of 1st degree pre-mediated murder with special circumstances. Death penalty was on the table the entire time and would have been his fate, but the plea deal was a way to spare the mother and family from having to go through a trial and here all the gruesome details of the case. He will still die in jail anyways, so this way the mother is spared any more heartache in the as well.

  7. He should be killed!

  8. Lisa Bright says:

    This made my day! !!!!!!!!!

  9. I hope they kill him..

  10. 50 years for killing and raping a19 month baby. That sucks. General population for him

  11. Doing the happy dance. Justice will was served. And he will get served in jail…

  12. Hope he’s in general population

  13. Diana Garcia says:

    Ass bite you should of got the death penalty for what you did to your own baby girl. MAY YOU ROT IN HELL!!! My prayers go out to the mother may God be with you at this hard time….

  14. This is nauseating. This man doesn’t deserve to be on this earth

  15. John Hayward says:

    Mmmm “Bye Bye”

  16. Donna Hill says:

    Personally I think he should just be taken out and shot!

  17. Good job Julie Kramer !!! Keep those monsters out of our streets!!! May God bless you for the work you do!!! Thank you!!!

  18. Death. Sentence. For. This. Animal

  19. I’m glad!!! This case has been so vague and not much has been seen about it since March. Does anyone know what the official cause of death was?

  20. Helen Gast says:

    Bonnie Fortner Raitt

  21. Wow, I remember that!!!

  22. This guy was out of jail after his second strike due to Jerry Brown’s AB109 program of releasing “Non Violent” prisoners because of overcrowding. It’s been calculated if AB109 never existed he would have been serving time during the time this 19 day old baby was tortured and murdered by him. Thanks Jerry. This story proves that your program doesn’t work. Either build more jails, exterminate these monsters or have a lottery so we can buy tickets to join a firing squad to end this madness.

  23. Garcia says:

    I hope this man gets it the same way he did to this child!! He need to burn in hell for what he did!! Sick ass!!

  24. Hope the accidentally place him on the mainline. ?

  25. Kinda crazy that in this case 19 days made the difference between murder/50 to life and a legal late-term abortion.

    • He didn’t just kill the baby. Have you read what he did? He did the most disgusting, vile things you can think of to his own newborn daughter. Don’t you DARE compare this monstrosity to abortion, even late term.

    • So exactly when is killing a baby not one of the most disgusting, vile things someone can do? That’s what a late term abortion is – killing a baby that’s moving, kicking, breathing etc. The comparison is valid. Sorry if the truth hurts, but I’m sure it hurts the dead baby more.

    • Are you serious?! Wow. Just wow.

    • I agree, Matthew. Dismembering a baby in the womb without anesthesia is pretty heinous when you really stop and think about it. Most people don’t want their minds to go there, they just want to continue to let it happen.

  26. Notice The picture of the street. This picture will do damage to this real estate area. Definitely I would not want to live here now

  27. No matter how tortured and raped and miserable he can be it wont bring back tht angel :( breaks my heart y r ppl so disgusting

  28. Only 50 years ?? That Disgusting piece of crap will be out in 20 years. Justice did not prevail !

  29. Linda Canini says:

    I am more than glad. What a weasel.

  30. He deserves a death penalty! Sick bastard!

  31. Unfortunately he’ll never see general population he will be protected ????

  32. Doesn’t really seem enough considering

  33. Shirley says:

    He should get the death penalty. He will make someone a nice “wifey” in prison. I seriously hope he rots in hell.

  34. Citizen Smith says:

    Warner, 30, was charged on Jan. 27 with murder, assault on a child causing death, torture, oral copulation or sexual penetration with a child 10 years or younger and aggravated sexual assault of a child. Those charges were dismissed as a result of his plea.

  35. Clarice L Griffith says:

    Even if he got death, in CA he’d still get great treatment which he doesn’t deserve! He should have been killed slowly…very slowly which makes me no different than he is for wanting him killed like that. However, I protect children and babies who have no voices. Our laws seriously need to be changed, and we sit here not doing anything about it.

  36. Alicia McBride says:

    I seriously feel like I’m going to throw up. And to think I knew this monster. I always knew there was something weird about him. But not THIS WEIRD and SICK!! Thank you God for removing him from my life when you did years ago. But why not from this little Angel’s???

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