From Kim Minugh:
A Natomas woman was arrested for child endangerment today after her live-in boyfriend allegedly inflicted fatal trauma on her 3-year-old boy last month, according to authorities.
Rosalie Renee Uribe, 23, was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail this afternoon on three counts of child endangerment. Sacramento police spokesman Sgt. Norm Leong confirmed that the charges are connected to the Nov. 9 death of Uribe's son, Manuel Maciel.
Maciel died at the UC Davis Medical Center two days, police say, after he suffered "major head trauma" at the hand's of Uribe's boyfriend, Joseph Skates.
Police last week arrested Skates, 23, in Medford, Ore., on suspicion of homicide. He awaits extradition.
According to police and fire authorities, no 911 calls were ever made about Maciel's injuries on Nov. 7. Instead, he was discovered by authorities accidentally, when a California Highway Patrol officer pulled over a driver that morning for crossing double lines.
The driver was Maciel's grandmother, and she told the officer she was en route to the boy's Zurlo Way apartment for a medical emergency, according to the CHP.
The officer followed her to the apartment, where someone ran out carrying the boy's body. He was barely breathing at the time, the CHP reported.
Maciel was transported to the hospital, and a fire captain on scene - suspicious of the boy's injuries - asked for police to respond as well. The boy died two days later.
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